Ed Catmull, president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, purchased a mansion in early November in the Pacific Heights neighborhood in San Francisco, for a whopping price of $9.95 million. The classic home was last listed on the market in 2012, when it was sold for $7.4 million.
The huge 6,700-square-feet property in the hilly area is within easy walking distance to restaurants, upscale shops, movie theaters, bars, and music venues on the fancy Fillmore Street.
According to the Realtor, the four-storey mansion has five bedrooms with modern amenities that include a chef's kitchen and breakfast bar, a gym, and remodeled bathrooms. The outdoor space is the highlight of the mansion, which includes a covered patio, a dining area, and a stone fountain.
Original details of the property remain in place, including floor-to-ceiling French doors, 11-foot high ceilings, hardwood flooring, and arched doorways.
Ed Catmull, a computer scientist and Academy Award winner, also put his Hawaiian getaway for $20.1 million on the market last year.
As co-founder and president of Pixar -- not to mention as the author of Creativity Inc. -- Catmull is well known for his expertise in leadership, particularly when it comes to creativity. In a chat with Box's co-founder and CEO, Aaron Levie, at BoxWorks 2015, Catmull opened up about the lesson he's learned during his career building with the most influential creative enterprise in the last 20 years, as reported by the Box website.
When Toy Story was developed by Pixar for its first full-length animated film, the team originally thought it would be important to get the story right first, and then make the film from there. As they learned quickly and realized, it's easier to get the story right first. "It turns out that's irrelevant," said Catmull. "The goal is only to make a good film."
In order to create a good film, you need to be willing to iterate inside the process.
