After Apple forced him out in 1985, Steve Jobs bought Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for $10 million, which became Pixar. He kept funding the company through lean years, and after Toy Story earned about $400 million and Pixar's 1995 IPO, he owned 80.2% of the company. In January 2006, Disney bought Pixar in an all-stock deal worth about $7.4 billion, giving Jobs roughly 138 million Disney shares valued at about $3.52 billion at the deal price. That stake was about 7.5 times his Apple holdings at the end of 2006, or 4.2 times depending on the share count, which the article notes is unverified. By Jobs's death in 2011, the gap had narrowed as Apple's shares rose sharply, with his Disney stake valued at $4.35 billion and his Apple shares at $2.05 billion.
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