Steven Jobs was born in 1955 in San Francisco and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He dropped out of college but co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak in 1976. After being fired from Apple in 1985, he founded NeXT and acquired Pixar. In 1996, he returned to Apple as CEO and led the company to success with products like the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad before passing away from pancreatic cancer in 2011.