Oren Jacob, CEO & Co-Founder, ToyTalk

Before co-founding ToyTalk as CEO, Oren was an Entrepreneur in Residence at August Capital. A filmmaker and technologist, he spent more than 20 years at Pixar, most recently as Chief Technical Officer and Director of the Studio Tools group. His feature film credits include “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2″, “A Bug’s Life”, and Supervising Technical Director for “Finding Nemo”. Oren also helped found Pixar University and taught animation at the Academy of Art College for seven years. Oren currently teaches “Lean Launchpad” courses with Steve Blank at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia, and for the NSF. And Oren plans drop all of this in a heartbeat to become a pro snowboarder the minute that first sponsor shows up.