Steven Paul Jobs was an American business magnate and industrial designer who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. He was born in 1955 in California and died in 2011. Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 and led the company to become a leader in personal computers and a model of industrial design before being ousted in a boardroom coup in 1985. He went on to found NeXT and later became the CEO of Pixar before returning to Apple in 1996 and spearheading its rise to become a dominant player in the music and mobile communications industries.