Pixar to Find Its Own Way as Disney Partnership Ends - New York Times, 1/31/04

QuikQuote: But what has left many people in Hollywood scratching their heads is whether personal or professional reasons led Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Pixar, to end his working relationship with Michael D. Eisner, the chief executive of Disney, and walk away from one of the most lucrative film partnerships in recent history.
Executives from Disney and Pixar have declined to elaborate on what went wrong. But several people involved in the talks, who insisted on anonymity, said a deal could have been reached if each side had been willing to compromise a little more. But the residue of several years of testy relations, and Mr. Jobs's distaste for the way Mr. Eisner conducted business with Pixar, may have amplified the typical problems of partnerships into irreconcilable differences.