Steve Jobs was a businessman.
Steve Jobs . Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are widely recognized as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s . In addition , Jobs helped to initiate the development of the visual effects industry when he funded the spinout of the computer graphics division of George Lucas 's Lucasfilm in 1986 . Within a few months of the merger , Jobs became CEO of his former company , reviving Apple at the verge of bankruptcy .