15. A Billionaire Is Born
One of those more profitable ventures emerged from the Pixar animation company, which Jobs co-founded in the early 1990s. Animation was always a passion of his, and when the opportunity arose to join forces with Disney in creating the timeless classic, Toy Story, Jobs was among the foremost contenders to cash in on the deal — rendering him a billionaire by 1996, even before returning to Apple the following year.