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Did Pixar make Steve Jobs a billionaire, not Apple?

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Updated on05/21/26

Pixar played a huge role in making Steve Jobs a billionaire after he bought the animation studio from Lucasfilm and helped grow it successfully. When Disney acquired Pixar, Steve Jobs became Disney’s largest individual shareholder, which massively increased his wealth. Although Apple later became the much bigger reason behind his global legacy and fortune growth, Pixar was extremely important during the period when he was away from Apple. Honestly, many people forget that Steve Jobs was deeply connected with both the technology and entertainment industries, not just Apple products.

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Updated on11/01/25

Everybody knows that Steve Jobs was a genius, visionary, and a billionaire when he died. He had a net worth of 7 billion dollar when he died in 2011. But a majority of people don’t know that it was not Apple that made him billionaire.

Jobs invested in Pixar during his time outside Apple. He invested more than $5 million dollar in Pixar in early 1986 that was a very huge amount at that time and the success came to him after the massive box office hit, Toy Story by Pixar’s first feature-length animated movie. This flick made a worldwide box office collection of whopping $358 million.

The share of Pixar that used to be Priced at $22 per share, Pixar (or PIXR, as it appears on the NASDAQ) hit a high of $49.50 and his millions converted into billions overnight.

Pixar was one of the first tech companies to experience highly profitable IPOs during the tech boom of the mid-to-late-1990s. The company went public in 1995 and Steve Job had 80% share of the company. Later on he sold Pixar to Walt Disney in 2006 for over $7 billion.

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