Disney's 2AM Inspiration

Ben Wilson shares a story about Walt Disney's determination during the early days of sound cartoons.

"They're inventing cartoons with sound and showing it to this audience. The audience is going crazy, so they keep showing it again and again. Finally, a couple of his animators are like 'We can't do this - it's 6 hours, they've been showing it to them, it's 2 in the morning.'

So they just go outside of the theater and are smoking and talking. Disney comes out and says 'Yeah, what are you guys gonna do? You gonna stand out here talking about babies or are you gonna come inside and change the world?'

What blew my mind is if you told me that quote out of context, I would have told you it was Steve Jobs. The similarities between their stories are actually kind of uncanny."