Manuel Vida

CPO at biker, sketcher, bad guitar player. Two kids manager

[Manuel Vida @manuelvida]

Fantástico pagar mensualmente el servicio Fulldrive de @audispain. Fallo motor y “casualmente” nunca hay disponibilidad de vehículo de sustitución en el único concesionario en 100km a la redonda. 40€ /mes para nada

[Manuel Vida @manuelvida]

Based on Itamar Gilad “A culture of good decision-making” https://t.co/0XZYIKlK9j

[Manuel Vida @manuelvida]

Amazon identifica 2 tipos de decisiones habituales en una organización 1.- Las importantes, en las que hay que intentar acertar y 2.- Menos importantes, en las que podemos equivocarnos de vez en cuando 🧵👇🏻

[Manuel Vida @manuelvida]

Por último, las decisiones de producto menos importantes sí que deberían tomarse siempre por parte de los equipos que tienen mayor contexto, pero pensando siempre en sí tienen coherencia con la visión y misión de la compañía. ⚠️No confundir ownership con independencia

[Manuel Vida @manuelvida]

Backend Node.js. Se busca. Un producto chulísimo en un equipo mejor aún. Apúntate o comparte. @rsaladocid te cuenta los detalles

[Rubén Salado ⊸₨ @rsaladocid]

ℹ️Estamos buscando un perfil de Backend Node.js para nuestro equipo. Es una buena oportunidad para trabajar en un equipo que se preocupa por llevar a cabo buenas prácticas, DDD, CI/CD, testing...

Aquí tenéis toda la info:
https://t.co/bFUalGuhxX

[RAFALCOR @RafalcorS]

Ayer jueves se talaron al menos 5 impresionantes árboles de gran porte, sanos, frondosos en la avenida El Brillante. Árboles que habían tardado décadas en crecer y servir de sombra y alivio vital para poder sobrevivir en la ciudad más calurosa de europa ¿respuestas @MRuizMadruga?

[Manuel Vida @manuelvida]

@drrouman @SlackHQ @discord @telegram @WhatsApp North Star Metrics my friend

[Manuel Vida @manuelvida]

💥New Brand, new era 💥

https://t.co/UPvLHystXg

[Manuel Vida @manuelvida]

@rsaladocid Congrats 🙌🏻.

[Manuel Vida @manuelvida]

I got it! Thanks @ItamarGilad for this great reference piece for all product community 👌🏻

[Fran Quesada @francanvaedu]

La semana que viene comienza el año nuevo docente y si eres de los que hasta ese día no empiezas a preparar la vuelta a clase, no te preocupes, porque te presento un kit que te va a solucionar la vida 😮‍💨

[Manuel Vida @manuelvida]

Once upon a time in California 🦖…

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Steve Jobs was the single largest individual shareholder in Disney and it all started with this $5 million check.

The year was 1986 and Steve Jobs was in exile from Apple.

The company that would one day become Pixar was called Graphics Group. Graphics Group was owned by Star Wars creator George Lucas.

George Lucas was getting divorced and needed to sell off some assets.

Steve Jobs agreed to give George Lucas $5 million and invest another $5 million in the company.

This was not the first time Steve Jobs had expressed interest in the technology behind Graphics Group.

When he was still at Apple, Jobs tried to get Apple’s board to buy the company.

They turned him down.

This is Steve explaining why he was interested in acquiring Graphics Group:

“These guys were way ahead of us on graphics, way ahead. They were way, way ahead of anybody. I just knew in my bones that this was going to be very important."

Steve would eventually invest $54 million of his own money in Pixar.

After several years of failing to sell The Pixar Image Computer, Pixar decided to go all in on making films.

After years of poor sales and rising expenses they were short on cash. To solve this problem Steve signed a deal to produce 3 animated films for Disney.

The first of these movies was Toy Story —the world’s first computer animated feature film.

Now here is where this story gets really interesting:

Steve decided to capitalize on the publicity of Toy Story’s release and take Pixar public at the same time.

Toy Story was released on November 22, 1995.

Pixar went public on November 29, 1995.

Steve's two partners — Ed Catmull and John Lasseter — did not want to go public.

They thought it was too early. They wanted to do a few more films first.

Then Steve laid out his strategy and told them what was likely coming from Disney.

Steve said let’s assume Toy Story is a big success (it was —grossing over $370 million).

When that happens the CEO of Disney — Michael Eisner — will realize he inadvertently created a rival for Disney Animation.

Pixar only had to make two more films for Disney and then they’d be free to do as they like.

Steve said Eisner’s next move would be to try and renegotiate with Pixar and keep Pixar close to Disney.

Steve said if they went public and had more money they’d be able to negotiate better terms with Disney.

Steve wanted a 50/50 split with Disney on returns. In order to request this Pixar had to be able to put up 50% of the production costs.

Going public would allow Pixar to afford this.

The time is now Steve said: "This is our moment."

And he was right. Toy Story was a massive success and Pixar's IPO raised $140 million -- the biggest IPO of 1995.

A few months later Eisner approached Jobs and said he wanted to keep Pixar as a partner.

Eisner accepted Steve’s 50/50 deal.

This partnership wasn't going to last. Steve Jobs and Michael Eisner couldn’t get along.

A few years later negotiations broke down completely and Pixar started looking for other partners.

Then Michael Eisner got fired. The new CEO of Disney was Bob Iger.

When Bob Iger found out he was going to be the next CEO he called his daughters first.

The next person he called was Steve Jobs.

He told Steve he valued Pixar and wanted to make a deal. This is Bob explaining why he felt Disney needed to buy Pixar:

“Michael [Eisner] didn’t understand that Disney’s problems in animation were as acute as they were. That manifested itself in the way he dealt with Pixar. He never felt he needed Pixar as much as he really did. Every negotiation needs to be resolved by compromises. Neither one of them [Eisner and Jobs] is a master of compromise.”

How did Bob Iger realize how badly Disney needed Pixar?

By watching a parade at Hong Kong Disneyland

Iger realized that the only characters in the parade that had been created in the past decade were Pixar’s:

“A lightbulb went off. I’m standing next to Michael [Eisner], but I kept it completely to myself, because it was such an indictment of his stewardship of animation during that period. After ten years of The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin, there were then ten years of nothing.”

Bob begins to negotiate with Steve to buy Pixar and does something very unusual:

He tells Steve how badly Disney needs Pixar.

Even more surprising this tactic worked. This is how Steve reacted:

“That’s why I just loved Bob Iger. He just blurted it out. Now that’s the dumbest thing you can do as you enter a negotiation, at least according to the traditional rule book. He just put his cards out on the table and said, ‘We’re screwed.’ I immediately liked the guy, because that’s how I worked too. Let’s just immediately put all the cards on the table and see where they fall.”

Disney purchased Pixar for $7.4 billion in Disney stock.

And Steve Jobs went from the single largest shareholder in Pixar to the single largest individual shareholder in Disney.

[Manuel Vida @manuelvida]

@chemitaxis Está claro que no entiendes nada de diseño de producto industrial 😂🕺🏻

[Genially (Español) @genially_es]

¡Prueba las nuevas preguntas interactivas de Genially!⚡️

Ahora podrás interactuar y poner a prueba a tu audiencia. HILO🧵⬇️⬇️

[Manuel Vida @manuelvida]

¡Ey! Tú, sí sí, es a ti 😅. Venga, que ampliamos equipo en @genially_es . Te contamos toditos los detalles en este post https://t.co/aH1zrIuND5

[Manuel Vida @manuelvida]

@palomoduarte Baja al chino. Altavoz bluetooth 14,99€. Sonido antiguo garantizado 👌🏻