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Aug 18, 2023 · Matthew Panzarino served as Editor in Chief of TechCrunch for a decade. Previously, he was News Editor and Managing Editor at The Next Web, founded photography businesses and a news blog...
Sep 19, 2023 · After 10 years covering startups, former TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino tells us what’s next. It’s been a rocky and chaotic decade — and now digital media is on the brink of yet...
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Apr 25, 2021 · Apple SVPs chat about the iPad Pro, merging with the Mac and its new unified processor strategy. Matthew Panzarino. 7:17 AM PDT • April 25, 2021. Comment. When the third minute of Apple’s ...
Aug 28, 2023 · A decade at the center of the startup world. Matthew Panzarino. 8:06 AM PDT • August 28, 2023. Comment. Image Credits: Flickr under a CC BY 2.0 license. It’s been 10 years since I stepped off a...
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- “The Show’S Been Trashed”
- Backup Plan
- The $100,000,000 Volvo
- Witchhunt
- Toy Story 2 Gets Trashed Again
- Lessons Learned
The story likely takes place in 1998, though Jacob admits he’s foggy on the exact date. The Toy Story 2 crew, about 150 people in the animation, lighting and modeling departments of Pixar, had been hard at work for some time on the movie. Simultaneously another 200-250 people were at work finishing up Bug’s Life, which would be released that Fall. ...
When this story originally started making the rounds, one of the other big questions was ‘how did this happen?’ I asked Jacob about the ‘how’ and he told me that it was actually largely a function of how a company like Pixar works on projects. “You have 400 people on the network and they all have to have like pretty massive access across the board ...
So at this point, most of the film had been deleted or otherwise compromised. But that wasn’t a big deal. Things had been deleted before, it’s just something that would happen from time to time. During the production of A Bug’s Life, most of the ants got deleted and had to be restored, which wasn’t a problem because, of course, Pixar backs up its d...
Susman, the Supervising Technical Director on Toy Story 2 (pictured below), had given birth to her son Eli shortly before, and had been working from home. This meant that she had a Silicon Graphics workstation at her house. It was either an Indigo 2 or an Octane, pictured right, and it was loaded up with a full copy of the movie. In order for her t...
One of the big questions that I wanted to pose was whether or not it was ever discovered who was responsible, and whether they were punished. Normally when something like this happens, there’s a cry for accountability. Item one on the agenda is typically, ‘who do we blame?’ Not so at Pixar. “There was no attempt to hide it,” says Jacob. “We sent an...
After the deletion and restoration of Toy Story 2, the team was likely hoping for an uneventful path to release, but it was not to be. In the Christmas of ’98, after the release of A Bug’s Life and the promotional tour was done, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, and legendary story man Joe Ranft all came to the production team to take a l...
In closing, Jacob told me that the most important thing that he took away from it was the sense of camaraderie from the crew at Pixar at the time. “I’d never really experienced that before, at that level, because it was such a loss that you didn’t need to have a meeting to explain how bad it was. People just knew. And both in the company but also i...
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Oct 7, 2020 · An EC-exclusive interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino traveled to Florida this week to talk with Tim Cook about Apple’s developer education initiatives...
