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Josh Anon

5 Product Lessons I Learned Making Pixar Movies

I spent my early career as a technical director at Pixar, working on some classic films. When Steve Jobs died, we had a company tribute to…

9 min readJan 4, 2021

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Star trails over the front of the Steve Jobs building at Pixar Animation Studios

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Josh Anon

Starting Products: When You Have to Guess…

How to make good product decisions when early-stage, pre-product startups are frequently driven by opinions, not data.

12 min readJan 2, 2020

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Starting Products: When You Have to Guess…

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Josh Anon

Starting Products: The Early Days or Lots of Free Time With Too Many Ideas

This is the second post in my Starting Products series. You can read the first post here.

12 min readDec 27, 2019

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Starting Products: The Early Days or Lots of Free Time With Too Many Ideas

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Josh Anon
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The Startup

Starting Products: An Introduction and a Lesson

Startups are nuts. And I mean that in a good way! Mostly. There’s a ton to be learned, and the experience is like dog years — 1 year at a…

11 min readDec 17, 2019

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Starting Products: An Introduction and a Lesson

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Josh Anon

Making Magic Leap One Great

Disclaimer: I used to be a Director of Product at Magic Leap, I haven’t worked there in ~2 years, and I did buy my options/have a solid…

17 min readMay 27, 2019

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Making Magic Leap One Great

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Josh Anon

Getting Started With VR

Why Everyone’s Suddenly Talking About VR And How To Experience It Yourself

13 min readMar 18, 2016

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Getting Started With VR

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Josh Anon

Mozaik’s Secret Story Accelerator

Behind the Story of Uncommon Stock

5 min readJul 29, 2015

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Mozaik’s Secret Story Accelerator

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Josh Anon

How to Fail at Raising Money Amidst a Bubble

18 min readApr 17, 2015

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How to Fail at Raising Money Amidst a Bubble

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Josh Anon
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Business Daily: Startups, Business Development, Management

The Dark Secret of Entrepreneurialism

Looking from the outside, it feels like everything is awesome about being an entrepreneur. But the truth is that everything is not awesome.

5 min readFeb 20, 2015

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The Dark Secret of Entrepreneurialism

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Josh Anon

So You’re Not Building an App?

The challenge of trying to create movies, not widgets.

6 min readNov 13, 2014

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So You’re Not Building an App?

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Josh Anon

Josh Anon

Product at Roblox. Formerly product at Embodied, Magic Leap, & Lytro. Ex-Pixar. Views are my own. Find me on Twitter at @joshanon

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