Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur and inventor who co-founded Apple Inc. with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976. They introduced the Apple I personal computer and later the Apple II, which was very successful. After a power struggle in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT but later returned to Apple as CEO in 1996 and brought the company back from bankruptcy, transforming it into one of the world's largest technology companies through products like the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad.