[samstave]

My understanding was that he purchased Pixar from Lucas for $10mm when Lucas didn't think that there was going to be a very lucrative animation business.

This was told to me by employees of ILM when I was building the letterman digital arts center.

[talmand]

Yes, those people founded what became Pixar. Jobs bought it from Lucas.

I'm going by the books I've read about Pixar written by employees or authors that interviewed employees.