Fisher co-founded clothing retailer Gap with his wife, Doris Fisher, in San Francisco in 1969.

He served as the company's CEO until 1995 and its chairman until 2004, a period that included the acquisition of Banana Republic and the launch of Old Navy.

• He was a major funder of the KIPP charter school network.

• He built one of the world's leading collections of contemporary art, which is on long-term loan to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).