Steve Jobs was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. and Pixar. He was born in 1955 in San Jose, California and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He dropped out of Reed College but later co-founded Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. Under Jobs' leadership, Apple released successful products like the Apple II, iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad which became hugely popular and transformed several industries. Currently, Apple is one of the largest companies in the world with over $274 billion in revenue and 147,000 employees.