Success from Failure
Unfortunately, Jobs’s businesses were not going as well as his per-
sonal life. Pixar and NeXT were losing a combined $60 million a
year. In order to turn things around, Jobs made dramatic changes
in both companies. He closed the hardware and sales division of
NeXT, turning the business into a software company intent on
developing a computer operating system able to compete with
Microsoft’s newly released Windows, which it did.
The Disney/Pixar collaboration Toy Story was a huge hit
and made Jobs a billionaire overnight.
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