Patrick Lencioni
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1,711 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 13 Apr
Patrick Lencioni’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I thought working for Steve might be kind of a little too close to the sun, if you know what I mean.
And so I turned them down and the headhunter called back and said, you don't turn Steve Jobs down for a job.
He said, he's gonna come pick you up and take you to lunch tomorrow.
Well, that next day,
the CEO of Apple quit or got fired and they rehired Steve Jobs to take over Apple.
And I fell off his radar and I thought that was interesting.
Then I got a job offer from another company in the Silicon Valley and I was considering it and I was talking to my wife about it and we were like, what am I doing?
I had this great department where I work.
I said, I want to someday have my own firm.
So we launched the table group 27 and a half years ago with no money.
And my dad, God rest his soul again, he said,
hey, dude, you have benefits and you're a vice president.
You should stay there.
You know what's interesting?
The thing I remember about talking to him about Pixar, he said, Pat, stories are how people grow and they shape society.
And he goes, what we're doing here at Pixar, it's not about the animation.
That's important.
It's the stories.
And he said, this stuff is going to shape people's lives.
And what's crazy is I was a screenwriter.
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