WWDTM: Laurene Powell Jobs

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4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Philanthropist and Founder and President of Emerson Collective Laurene Powell Jobs joins Helen Hong, Hari Kondabolu, and Adam Felber to tell us the real story of how she met her husband Steve and the secret to throwing the best Halloween parties in Palo Alto.

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0:38.0	Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois. Peter Sago.
0:43.0	Thank you, Bill.
0:47.0	Thank you, everybody.
0:48.0	Great to be with you. We have a great show for you today,
0:51.0	especially because later on, we are going to be joined here by
0:53.8	Loreen Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, and now one of the nation's most well-known
0:58.8	philanthropists, which is great, but I have to come up with some new questions quickly because thanks to
1:05.6	autocorrect I was preparing all week to talk to the nation's most well-known
1:10.2	philanderer. So while I pivot, give us a call. The number is one
1:20.0	triple-a wait wait that's one 888 924 let's welcome our first
1:25.0	listener contestant how you're on wait wait don't tell me hi this is Kira from
1:29.0	Brooklyn New York hey kira how are you? That's great.
1:34.0	What cool hipster-erdy thing do you do in Brooklyn?
1:37.0	I am the school librarian.
1:39.0	O'B-Oh, man.
1:41.0	Oh, man. Oh. You are a rebel.
1:44.0	Yes.
1:45.0	Wow.
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