Responsible for the creation of the world's second most valuable company after Exxon and for bringing the Apple Macintosh, the iMac, the iPod, ITunes music Store, iPhone and IPad tablet to the world.  

Met Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in high school when Jobs was 13 and Wozniak was 18.  In 1976 they created the the Apple Computer and Co-founded Apple in Jobs' family garage.  A year later they introduced the Apple II, a computer that could straddle both thte business and consumer markets.  It was an instant hit achieving sales revenues  $2 million in 1977 which grew to a staggering $600 million by 1981.

Left Apple in 1985 after an execuitve he had hired, John Sculley, suggested to the board he was far too young to help run the compnay.  He subsequently set up his own computer company, NeXT which he sold to Apple 11 years later and returned to work for them as a consultant.  He took the role of Interim CEO of Apple in 1997 and became the permanent CEO in 2000 until August 2011 when he resigned and took the role of Chairman.

In 1986 he bought Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas and went into partnership with Walt Dinsey Pictures in 1995 to make Toy Story, the first Disney Pixar animated movie which netted a reported $362 million at teh box office.  He sold Pixar to Disney in 2006 for $7.4 billion and gained 7% of Disney's stock, making him the company's largest single share holder.

Battled against pancreatic cancer from 2003 until his death in 2011 at the age of 56.  According to his family his final words were "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."