Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur and inventor who co-founded Apple Inc. and served as CEO. He was born in 1955 in San Francisco and died in 2011 from pancreatic cancer. As co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple, he helped launch the personal computer revolution in the 1970s and 1980s with the Apple II and Macintosh, and transformed the mobile phone and music industries in the 2000s with the iPod, iPhone and iPad.