Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur and business magnate. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. He was also the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios. Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, in 1955 and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out that same year and travelling through India in search of spiritual enlightenment, and then returned to the US in 1974. He began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak and others. Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. A year later, the duo gained fame and wealth for the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers. In the late 1970s, Apple had a staff of computer designers and a production line. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from 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 Lucasfilm, which was spun off as Pixar. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. Jobs returned to Apple as an advisor in 1996 and became the company's interim CEO in 1997, which later became permanent. He led the company to introduce the iMac, iTunes, iTunes Store, Apple Store, and iPod. He was widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution and the modern smartphone industry. Jobs died of pancreatic cancer in 2011.