He was adopted at birth in San Francisco, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s.
He briefly attended Reed College before dropping out and deciding to travel through India to seek enlightenment and study Zen Buddhism.
He co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer.
After leaving Apple, Jobs took a few of its members with him to found NeXT. In 1997, Apple acquired and merged NeXT, allowing Jobs to become CEO once again, reviving the company at the verge of bankruptcy.
Jobs helped to initiate the development of the visual effects industry when he funded the spinout of the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm in 1986.
He was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003 and died of respiratory arrest related to the tumor on October 5, 2011.