we still are vy,ery close to lucasfilm. we do all of our post production with them, he's like our godfather. >> rose: and still going strong. >> yeah. >> rose: so what did steve bring to this? >> steve jobs was amazing. he really saw something in all of us as people. he bought-- we were 40 people at the time. at the time we were hardware and softwarecompany. now he bought us in 1986 for $10 million, 5 million to lucasfilm, 5 million as seed money. over the next nine years, we proceeded to lose money every single quarr, every single month. nine years. he would sit there, patiently writing checks out of his own pocketbook to the tune of a total of $50 million of his own personal money he invested in the compy before he started making money. but he saw the vision of us turning from a computer company into an animation studio with "toy story". and he really guided us to come, become pixar animation studios, the company that we are. nobody else on the planet would have that kind of dedication to us over the long haul. itas unbel

the challenge for this and for the 300 other buildings including lucasfilm head quarters holding on to history while preserving the future. >> this has a dwrand, grand past. we're giving it a new life. >> some of the buildings here still has adobe brick left over from when spain built the presidio. the bay changed hands from spain to mexico and final toll the united states in the late 1700s. when the u.s. military pulled out, it became a national park. ten years ago the presidio developed a detailed plan to put the space back in use. the 22-room inat the presidio is part of that plan. >> all that was restored and brought back. >> the building was gutted and redone, maintains or matching as much of the original nix tur as possible. much of the $11 million spent on the project was used for the retrofit. because it was literally leaning to the side. >> it was in a fair amount of disrepair. >> reporter: waterford hotels expects to open the one bedroom suites and charge up to $350 a night for the rooms with the golden gauge bridge view. it's considerably cheaper than a similar project in ft

heard about this incredible group of computer graphic specialists that george lucas had assembled at lucasfilm that heanted to sell. and so i went up there and saw what they were doing and i met the leader of this group, group, and ed told me about his dream which was to make the firstomputer animated feature film some day. and showed me what this team was working on. and i was blown away. i spent a lot of time in computer graphics with the macintosh and laser writer buthis was way beyond anything i've seen. and so i bought into that dream both spiritually if you will and financially. and we bought the computer division from george. and incorporated it as pixar. john was there from the very start. was there and we were joined by other people along the way. and it took us ten years to do it. >> what was so hard? >> oh, there were-- good question, huh. >> yeah, it is a good question. it took us a long time to build the technical foundation to dohis stuff. we were pioneering every step of the way, pixar invented all of this stuff, but as john says we don't view our ef i as a technology company, o