Steve Jobs’s love life

Stanford Memorial Church

Steve Jobs’s memorial service took place at Stanford Memorial Church; the list of the attendees includes all the mogul and tycoon of the high tech industry.  Bill & Hillary Clinton and Al Gore (Apple board member) were there.  Yo-Yo Ma was there to play the cello as he promised Jobs.  One may wonder why Joan Baez was there.

Steve & wife, Laurence in 8/1997 (photo credit Isaacson's Steve Jobs)

At age of 27 Jobs had a romance with Joan Baez (then 41) for several years. One day Jobs bursted into the office with Baez and showed her the prototype of Macintosh, all the employees were much surprised as it was then a top secret of developing Macintosh.  Baez had once been the lover of Bob Dylan in early 1960s when they toured together.  “Steve loved that connection to Dylan,” Baez later said.  Dylan was Jobs’s idol, his iPod was full of Bob Dylan’s and Beetle songs, Bach and 3 albums of Yo-Yo Ma.  

Jobs also had many other serious relationships before he finally settled down at age of 36.  Jennifer Egan (then a U. of Pennsylvania undergraduate) and Tina Redse almost became Mrs. Jobs.

Many romances notwithstanding, Jobs became a “Family Man” (Chapter 21 of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs.  Isaacson also wrote a biography of Einstein) and their marriage turned out to be “enduring, marked by loyalty and faithfulness.”  His son Reed is now at Stanford and one daughter went to Harvard.