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T oday Pixar is one of the leading entertainment companies in the world. Its films have won numerous awards while grossing billions of dollars worldwide. Its technological advances are widely imitated, and its culture of creativity and collaboration makes it one of the most desirable places to work within the field. But Pixar didn’t always seem destined for greatness. Like a character in one of its movies, the company had to endure all kinds of obstacles before realizing its true calling. Those challenges helped Pixar figure out what worked—and what didn’t—in its approach to both animation and business. Years of trial and error led to the great breakthrough of Toy WORDS TO UNDERSTAND entrepreneurial  describing someone who develops and manages a business genre a specific type of artwork characterized by its form, subject matter, or other qualities gross to earn a total amount of money before taxes or other expenses are deducted render in computer graphics, the process of creating realistic images on

screen using qualities such as lighting, shade, and perspective wunderkind a person who achieves success at something at a very young age

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