Apple Inc. Steven Paul Jobs was an American entreponour and inventor, best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. steven paul jobs was born in san francisco on february 24 1955 to two university students joanne carole schieble, of swiss catholic descent and syrian born Abdulfattah "John" Jandali.. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the Person computer revoloution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer fields, transforming "one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies..." Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of xerox parcs-driven graphical user interface which led to the creation of the apple lisa and, one year later, the macintosh. He also played a role in introducing the laser writer one of the first widely available laser printers, to the market. After a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucas Film, which was spun off as Pixar He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He served as CEO and majority shareholder