Laurene Powell Jobs & family

About Laurene Powell Jobs & family

• Laurene Powell Jobs inherited her fortune–mostly through shares of Walt Disney and Apple–from her late husband, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011.
• Powell Jobs is the founder and president of the Emerson Collective, an impact investing, philanthropy and advocacy firm focused on environmental justice, health, immigration and education.
• Powell Jobs purchased The Atlantic in 2017 and has invested in other media outlets and nonprofit newsrooms, including Axios, ProPublica, The Athletic and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
• 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 through innovative solutions and environmental justice.

Did you know

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.

In Their Own Words

My relationship with money is that it’s a tool to be self-sufficient, but it’s not something that is a part of who I am.

Laurene Powell Jobs & family

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