Laurene Powell Jobs & family

Founder, Emerson Collective

$14.97B

$158.1M (1.1%)

as of 07/02/24

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.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Apple, Disney

Residence

Palo Alto, California

Marital status

Widowed

Birth date

11/06/63 (age 60)

Number of children

Education

Master of Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School

Self-made

inherited