CEO Disney, Bob Iger told about his friendship with Steve Jobs

It is known that Jobs and company Disney has long been linked not very good relations. However, with the arrival of a new CEO Bob Iger the situation has changed. In an interview edition Fortune Disney CEO spoke about his relationship with the former CEO Apple Steve Jobs and the path of reconciliation, which took place two corporations.

Bob Iger and Steve Jobs linked 6 years of close communication. Ed Ketamall, one of Disney executives said about true friendship between Iger and Jobs in the last years of his life Steve and close their business vision

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Here's what he says Iger:

Often we stood at the blackboard and discuss their ideas. We talked a lot about how to weave and bind the vital history and technology. This is an incredible symbiosis

Bob Iger, CEO Disney

It is known that for a long time Disney and Jobs associated far the most optimistic attitude (because of work in the last Pixar). Bob Iger talks about his determination to re-establish contact with Jobs when stood at the helm of Disney:

I told Steve that I know about the difficult relationship between him and Disney. "Do you think we will have a purely business relationship - but it's not, and I want to prove it to you" - I said.

Bob Iger, CEO Disney

And after that conversation the relationship between Disney and Steve really began to build - one of the first deals of the Eiger in the CEO post was an agreement with Apple on about accommodation Disney content in iTunes - in the mid-2000s, it was still a very young platform for the sale of media content and the deal with Disney could not have been by the way.

To date, between Disney and Apple formed close ties and strong relationship. One of the fun characters of this business partnership - clock faces in the form of Mickey Mouse in the iPod nano and Apple Watch.