Laurene Powell Jobs Biography
Laurene Powell Jobs is an American billionaire heiress, businesswoman, executive, and founder of the Emerson Collective, an organization that promotes policies on education reform, social redistribution, and environmental protection, among other investment and philanthropic activities.
She is also the co-founder and president of College Track’s board of directors, which prepares underprivileged high school students for college.
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Laurene Powell Jobs Age
Powell was born on 6 November 1963 in West Milford, New Jersey, United States. He is 59 years old as of 2023.
Laurene Jobs Family
Powell’s parents are not known. She has two siblings; Brad Powell and Tracy Powell.
Laurene Powell Jobs Husband
Jobs proposed on New Year’s Day 1990 with “a fistful of freshly picked wildflowers”. They got married at a Buddhist ceremony at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park on March 18, 1991. Fifty people attended, including Jobs’ father, Paul, and Mona, his girlfriend. Jobs’ guru, Kobun Chino Otogawa, performed the ceremony. The vegan wedding cake was built like the Half Dome of Yosemite, and the wedding ended with a walk.
Laurene Powell Jobs Children
Their son, Reed, was born in September 1991, followed by daughters, Erin in 1995 and Eve in 1998. Laurene is also the stepmother of Lisa Brennan-Jobs, who was born in 1978, Steve’s daughter from a previous relationship.
Laurene Powell Jobs Husband’s death
Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, died on October 5, 2011, at the age of 56, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated islet-cell neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer. Powell Jobs inherited the Steven P. Jobs Trust, which had a 7.3 percent stake of approximately $11.1 billion in The Walt Disney Company as of May 2013, and 38.5 million shares of Apple Inc. As of July 2020, Powell Jobs and her family are ranked 59th in Forbes’ annual list of billionaires worldwide and 30th in Forbes 400. She is the richest woman in the technology sector, according to the same list.
Laurene Jobs Activist
Powell Jobs founded the Emerson Collective in 2004, a private corporation structured as a Limited Liability Company that supports social entrepreneurs and organizations operating through collaborations, grants, and investments in education and immigration reform, social justice, media, and journalism and conservation. Powell Jobs owns The Atlantic and Axios through Emerson.
Powell Jobs contributed $2 million to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and raised a further $4 million for her. In 2017, she sponsored the development of the political organization ACRONYM for the development of the Courier Newsroom, which posed ethical concerns for Powell Workers. Powell Jobs donated to the campaigns of Democratic candidates Amy Klobuchar, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Michael Bennet in the 2020 U.S. Presidential primaries. She went on to donate over $600,000 to his campaign after Joe Biden became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
Laurene Powell Jobs Education
She’s been earning a B.A. University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences and a B.S. in Political Science Economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1985. In 1991, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, she earned her M.B.A. degree.
Laurene Powell Jobs Food company
Powell Jobs co-founded Terravera, a natural food company that sold to retailers across Northern California. She also served on the board of directors of Achieva, which developed online tools to help students learn more efficiently standardized testing. Before business school, Powell Jobs worked for Merrill Lynch Asset Management and spent three years at Goldman Sachs as a fixed-
Laurene Powell Jobs Sports & Entertainment
Reports suggested on October 3, 2017, that Powell Jobs had acquired a stake in the Monumental Sports & the Entertainment ownership group that comprises the Washington Wizards of the NBA, Washington Capitals of the NHL, and Capital One Arena. After Chairman Ted Leonsis, her approximately twenty percent stake makes her the second-largest shareholder.