Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and former president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, joins the podcast for a conversation about how great creative work actually gets made. We talk about why Pixar chose directors before ideas, what it meant to support “ugly” early concepts, and how the Braintrust created honest feedback without hierarchy. This episode explores creativity as problem-solving and leadership as the work of protecting ideas long enough for them to become something real.

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