Steve Jobs
Apple's 1997 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded. He worked as the Chief Executive Officer of Apple and was paid $1 million (£600,000) per year. He concentrated on making the company profitable again. He cancelled a few unprofitable projects. Jobs was a force behind the creation of the iPod, released in 2001; the iPhone, released in 2007; and the iPad, released in 2010.