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When Toy Story finally came out on November 22, it exceeded all the hopes that Pixar and Disney had put into it. It made $28 million in the Thanksgiving 3-day weekend alone, and eventually reached $160 million in US box-office receipts — a great number for a $27 million production.
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<h2>But it wasn’t just about the movie.</h2>
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When Steve started envisioning the possible success of Toy Story, he talked about taking Pixar public. Wall Street analysts and experts laughed at his face, since Pixar still hadn’t made a single profit during its nine-year existence. But, in August 1995, a small startup that had existed for only a year and was also unprofitable had made a huge hit by going public: it was Netscape, the software developer of the eponymous Web browser. Suddenly Steve’s idea was not that ridiculous anymore.</p>
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