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Laurene Powell Jobs
Laurene Powell Jobs is an American entrepreneur, business executive and philanthropist. She is the founder and president of Emerson Collective, lead investor and chair of The Atlantic and co-founder and chair of XQ Institute. Powell Jobs also sits on the boards of the Ford Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, Chicago CRED, College Track and Elemental Impact. She is the widow of Steve Jobs, wh…
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business · American businesswoman (born 1963) · businessperson · also Laurene Powell Jobs, Laurene Jobs, Laurene Powell-Jobs, Jobs
Born 6 November 1963 · Q3133593
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2025· 2 entries
Visited India for Maha Kumbh Mela 2025
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2024· 1 entry
It was reported she purchased a residential property in San Francisco worth $70 million
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2023· 1 entry
Was ranked as the 25th-most powerful woman in the world by Forbes
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2022· 1 entry
Powell Jobs's said her philanthropy operates almost entirely anonymously to give "greater emphasis" to the charities themselves rather than the donors
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2021· 1 entry
Powell Jobs announced the creation of a new climate philanthropic organization called the Waverley Street Foundation, with an initial investment of $3
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2019· 2 entries
Powell Jobs was designated the "Least Transparent Mega-Giver" by Inside Philanthropy
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Reported net worth: $18.6B (as of 2019).
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2018· 1 entry
Stated that the book Small Fry by her stepdaughter Lisa Brennan contains false information about Steve Jobs as a father
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2017· 2 entries
Powell Jobs purchased a 20 percent stake in Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE), which owns the NBA's Washington Wizards, NHL's Washington Capitals and Capital One Arena
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It was reported that Powell Jobs provided funding to the political organization ACRONYM
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2013· 1 entry
Powell Jobs was an investor in Ozy Media and resigned from the board in 2017
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2011· 3 entries
At the age of 56, Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, died due to complications from a relapse of islet cell neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer
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Powell Jobs founded Emerson Collective, a company that invests in entrepreneurs and innovators working in education and immigration reform, media, journalism and conservation using a combination of venture investing and
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“invests in entrepreneurs and innovators driven by purpose and a sense of possibility”
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1998· 1 entry
Career landmark: childbirth.
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1997· 2 entries
“You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.”
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Powell Jobs co-founded College Track, a non-profit organization in East Palo Alto to improve high school graduation, college enrollment, and college graduation rates for students from under-resourced communities
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1991· 2 entries
Married in a traditional Buddhist wedding ceremony at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park
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She and Steve Jobs had three children together: son Reed (born September 1991) and daughters Erin (born 1995) and Eve (born 1998).
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-11-06.
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