Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in San Francisco and adopted shortly after birth. He dropped out of college but co-founded Apple in 1976. As CEO, he led the company to pioneer personal computers and smartphones. Jobs battled pancreatic cancer for nearly a decade before passing away in 2011 at age 56. The document provides details about Jobs' personal life and career highlights, including founding Apple with Steve Wozniak, being fired in 1985, returning to Apple in 1997 to turn the company around, and the products and innovations he helped create that transformed technology.