Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 and died on October 5, 2011. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and a co-founder of Apple Inc. (together with Steve Wozniak) in 1976. The company was founded to to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. One year later, they launched the Apple II, which was one of the most successful personal computers of all times. Both Jobs and Wozniak are recognized as the pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s decades.
He abandoned Apple in 1985 and then founded another company named NeXt, a computer platform development company that specialized in computers for higher-education and business markets. At that time, he started collaborating with George Lucas, a famous film producer and director. So, he founded a new company, Pixar, which produced Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated film.
Apple incorporated NeXT in 1997, and Jobs came back to his former company becoming again the CEO. He worked together with Jony Ive to develop a line of products which are still very popular nowadays: iTunes, iPod, iPad and iPhone are some of their creations.