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Fortune: What Apple’s Steve Jobs brought to Bob Iger’s Disney

Disney's CEO talks about his long and productive friendship withApple'sco-founder.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, right, shares a laugh with Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger during an Apple media event on September 12, 2006 in San Francisco. Photograph by Justin Sullivan — Getty Images

One of the highlights of Michal Lev-Ram’s cover story in the current issue of Fortune is the section about Bob Iger’s relationship with Steve Jobs, who brought Pixar’s hit-making machine to Disney (DIS) and became, in return, Disney’s largest shareholder and a key advisor.

In a second piece posted Tuesday, Lev-Ram fleshes out that section with new details from her notebook. Among them:

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One of the highlights of Michal Lev-Ram’s cover story in the current issue of Fortune is the section about Bob Iger’s relationship with Steve Jobs, who brought Pixar’s hit-making machine to Disney (DIS) and became, in return, Disney’s largest shareholder and a key advisor.

In a second piece posted Tuesday, Lev-Ram fleshes out that section with new details from her notebook. Among them:

One of the highlights of Michal Lev-Ram’s cover story in the current issue of Fortune is the section about Bob Iger’s relationship with Steve Jobs, who brought Pixar’s hit-making machine to Disney (DIS) and became, in return, Disney’s largest shareholder and a key advisor.

In a second piece posted Tuesday, Lev-Ram fleshes out that section with new details from her notebook. Among them:

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