Laurene Powell Jobs net worth 2024: Laurene Powell-Jobs is an American billionaire businesswoman and executive. Powell-Jobs is founder and chair of Emerson Collective, an organization that supports social entrepreneurs who are committed to the ideal that everyone ought to have the chance to live to their full potential.
Laurene Powell Jobs net worth and Biography
| Net worth | $20 billion |
| Date of birth | November 6, 1963 |
| Occupation | shareholder of The Walt Disney Company |
| Nationality | American |
As of 2024, Laurene Powell Jobs net worth is valued at $20 billion making her one f the richest women in the world. Powell-Jobs is also the co-founder and chairman of XQ Institute, which aims to rethink American high schools
Biography
Powell-Jobs was born on November 6, 1963 and grew up in West Milford, New Jersey. She earned a B.A. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences and a B.S. degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1985. She received her M.B.A. degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1991.
In October 1989, Steve Jobs gave a “View from the Top” lecture at Stanford Business School. Laurene Powell was a new MBA student and sneaked to the front of the lecture and started up a conversation with Jobs, who was seated next to her. They ended up having dinner together that night.
A year and a half later, on March 18, 1991, they married in a ceremony at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. Their son, Reed, was born in September 1991, followed by daughters Erin in 1995 and Eve in 1998. Laurene is also the stepmother of Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Steve’s daughter from a previous relationship, who was born in 1978.
Powell-Jobs co-founded Terravera, a natural foods company that sold to retailers throughout Northern California. She also served on the board of directors of Achieva, which created online tools to help students study more effectively at standardized testing.
Before business school, Powell-Jobs worked for Merrill Lynch Asset Management and spent three years at Goldman Sachs as a fixed-income trading strategist.
On October 3, 2017, Powell-Jobs had purchased a stake in the ownership group Monumental Sports & Entertainment that includes the NBA’s Washington Wizards, NHL’s Washington Capitals, and Capital One Arena. Her approximately twenty percent stake makes her the second-largest shareholder behind chairman Ted Leonsis
Laurene Powell Jobs net worth
As of 2024, Laurene Powell Jobs net worth is valued at $20 billion. Powell-Jobs inherited the Steven P. Jobs Trust, which as of May 2013 had a 7.3% stake in The Walt Disney Company worth approximately $12.1 billion, and 38.5 million shares of Apple Inc after the death of Steve Jobs