Jobs lands Disney!

Steve Jobs has managed to sell Pixar Animation Studios to Disney for $7.4 billion in stock. As part of the deal, Pixar shareholders will receive 2.3 Disney shares for every Pixar share they own. Steve Jobs currently owns 50.6% of Pixar so this deal will mean that Steve jobs is going to become the single largest share holder in Disney!

I guess that means Steve has a lot more content for his iTunes Store!

4 Responses to “Jobs lands Disney!”


  1. 1 Michele

    How did you work out that Jobs will become the largest shareholder? Is the number of shares currently issued by Disney available?

  2. 2 Tom Raftery

    It was reported in several of the news reports Michele - see this news.com report for example

  3. 3 Michele

    Wow! I thought Eisner would have held the lion’s share

  4. 4 Michele

    eWeek have a column on it as well:
    http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1915695,00.asp

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