Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was married to his wife from 1991 until his death in 2011 The late was married to his wife, , for 20 years. The Jobses were certainly a power couple. As one of the most famous tech founders, Steve started Apple in 1976, in 2007 and had major shares in Pixar and The Walt Disney Company.
Laurene co-founded the Emerson Collective, a philanthropy and investment firm that is a majority owner of and has funded media companies like Gimlet, Ozy and Axios. Steve met his future wife while he was giving a lecture at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Laurene was a 25-year-old M.
B.A. student at the time and she and the Apple mogul hit it off.
Steve even skipped a business meeting to take her on a date, and the rest is history. "I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself, 'If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting, or with this woman?' " Steve said in . "I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me.
She said yes, we walked into town and we've been together ever since." Related: The couple wed two years later and were inseparable until Steve died in 2011 following a relapse of his previously treated cancer. Laurene often speaks fondly of her late husband, and in 2020 she told : "I grew up with him.
Just like anyone that you share your life with, there's an exchange and a robustness. We had a very, very beautiful and rich connection." So, who is Steve Jobs' wife? Her.