In a new book, Pixar's first chief financial officer details the hundreds of walks he went on with Steve Jobs during the company's formative years. The conversation would meander from business to personal. Once Pixar had become a giant, Lawrence Levy, the author of To Pixar and Beyond, first told Jobs he thought it should sell to Disney (DIS). They were walking in the shadows of Palo Alto's oak, ash and magnolia trees. The setting was a far cry from Pixar's first office, a one-story building across the street from an oil refinery's smokestacks.
