There are many entrepreneurs who founded many remarkable starts up companies, which later became quite well known companies. But unfortunately, in many cases situation forced the founders to leave their very own company or from the post of the CEO. Here is the list of few founders who were removed from their post. Steve Jobs, Apple Steve Jobs is the co-founder and CEO of Apple. He founded Apple in 1976. In 1983, Steve Jobs lured John Sculley away from Pepsi-Cola to serve as Apple's CEO, but Steve was fired by CEO John Sculley. In 2005, at Stanford, Jobs said 'How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of future began to diverge and eventually, we fell out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him.' Around the same time, Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer and in 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for $429 million. The deal was finalized in late 1996 bringing Jobs back to the company he had co-founded and Jobs returned as CEO in 1997.