He along with some other people founded Apple in 1976. He was 21 years old at that time. Jobs also founded NeXT computers in 1985. He acquired Lucasfilm Ltd (now Pixar Animation Studio) and produced many successful animation movies including Toy story (1995), A Bug's life (1998),), Toy story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Cars (2006), Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008), Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010).
Jobs announced to his employees that he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his pancreas in 2004. Many notable people released statement reactions including President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Stephen Elop, and Bob Iger.