Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American
entrepreneur, industrial designer, media proprietor, and investor. He was
the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority
shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of
directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman,
and CEO of NeXT. He is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal
computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early business
partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.