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Date Published
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Dan Kaplan
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841
Language
English
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Summary

Oren Jacob, former CTO of Pixar, left his 20+ year career at the company to start a new venture as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at August Capital, where he is working on a secret project at the intersection of mobile and family entertainment. `Oren credits Pixar's ability to celebrate and reward high-performing employees, and its culture of adapting to change, for his long tenure there. He believes that cultures never stay the same and that companies must be willing to evolve and adjust their changes to maintain a desired culture. Oren was drawn to entrepreneurship as a way to explore new areas outside of film animation, which is Pixar's main business area. `His startup aims to leverage mobile technology for family entertainment, although details remain under wraps until his keynote at the Twilio conference.