Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur, industrial designer, business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. He was the co-founder of Apple, chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors and founder of NeXT. He is widely known as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970's and 1980's along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.