Alvy Ray Smith

Okay, what else is going on?

On February 3rd of this year, 1986, Pixar Animation Studios is founded by Edwin Ketmull and Alvy Ray Smith.

I think I've heard of that.

Heard of them.

And one of their core principles has to do with caring about people and having integrity in walking the talk, not just you know, preaching it.

And they had this great moment where two of the founders, Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith, they were told by consultants they needed to downsize and they had to let go of people.

And they were given a deadline and Ed shows up at the meeting and he says, I will give you two people that I'm willing to let go of.

And he writes down his name and his co-founder's name.

That's him.

And he's sitting next to a guy there named Alvy Ray Smith.

And, and Pixar has such a long, twisted history.

I can't even begin to touch the details here.

It wasn't even called Pixar then for sales.

And also they were trying to cut costs in the Lucas empire.

And there was an efficiency expert type guy who George Lucas hired who kept pressing Ed Catmull, and that's Alvy Ray Smith next to him, the guy who invented what basically made, made modern digital movies possible.

Um, anyhow, so, um, mod-modern digital animated movies possible.