Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (San Francisco, CA, February 24, 1955 - Palo Alto, CA, October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder (along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne), chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. He founded Apple in 1976 along with a boyhood friend, Steve Wozniak, in the garage of his home. 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 and he was the top individual shareholder of The Walt Disney Company.