John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin turn a critical eye towards last week's episode on criticism, then try to pick the single biggest challenge facing three different wildly successful companies: Google, Facebook, and yes…Pixar.

Links for this episode:

  • Sexual Harassment and You - SNL skit, 2005
  • "What company derives 96 percent of its revenue from advertising?"
  • Horace Dediu's tweet about Pixar and Apple
  • Ed Catmull on Pixar and success - It's long, but really, really worth watching
  • Hayao Miyazaki - Wikipedia
  • John Lasseter - Wikipedia
  • Edwin Catmull - Wikipedia
  • "Monkey Mind" - Wikipedia
  • If you're not paying for it, you are the product being sold - MetaFilter

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