Steve Jobs was an American businessman who co-founded Apple Inc. and served as CEO. He was born in 1955 and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. Jobs married Laurene Powell in 1991 and they had three children together. He co-founded Apple in 1976 and led the company to develop revolutionary products such as the Macintosh computer in 1984, iPod in 2001, and iPhone in 2007. After being forced out of Apple, Jobs joined Pixar and later returned as Apple's CEO in 1996. He battled pancreatic cancer for many years before passing away in 2011 at the age of 56.