Laurene Powell Jobs
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Apple, Disney
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- Palo Alto, California
- Organization
- Founder & President at Emerson Collective
- Education
- Stanford Graduate School of Business (Master of Business Administration)University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
- Marital Status
- Widowed
- Children
- 3
Assets
- Apple32,000,000 shares @ $313.39$10,028,480,000AAPL-US
- Walt Disney5,346,000 shares @ $96.70$516,958,200DIS-US
Biography
Laurene Powell Jobs is the founder and president of Emerson Collective, an impact investing, philanthropy and advocacy firm focused on environmental justice, health, immigration and education.
Powell Jobs inherited her fortune--mostly shares of Walt Disney and Apple--from her late husband, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011.
Powell Jobs purchased part of The Atlantic in 2017 and has invested in other media outlets and nonprofit newsrooms, including ProPublica.
She owns a minority stake in Monumental Sports, parent of the Wizards (NBA), Capitals (NHL), and Mystics (WNBA) and in 2022 invested in the WNBA's first-ever capital raise.
In 2021 she launched the Waverley Street Foundation and committed to donate $3 billion over a decade to organizations addressing climate change.
About
Laurene Powell Jobs met her late husband Steve Jobs at Stanford U's business school when she attended a guest lecture he gave. He asked her out in the parking lot.
Her son Reed Jobs launched venture capital firm Yosemite in 2023; it is focused on making cancer non-lethal in our lifetimes.