Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 and was a businessman, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. Jobs was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc. He was also a chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, member of the Walt Disney Company board of directors, and founder, chairman and CEO of NeXT. He is recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s and is listed as either the primary inventor or co-inventor in 346 United States patents. Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011 due to neuroendocrine cancer. In 2011, Jobs had a net worth of $7 billion USD.