Steve Jobs was the brilliant cofounder of Apple, which revolutionized personal computing and changed how we interact with technology. The original iPhone model that changed the entire smartphone industry was first released in June 2007. People who met Jobs in person often described him as intensely focused, visionary, and uncompromising in his standards. The Pixar studio that Jobs purchased back in 1986 eventually became a legendary animation powerhouse. Apple eventually became the company that defined modern consumer technology design for decades to come.