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Not totally an answer to your question, but a nice section from Isaacson's biography about Jobs about how he met Paulene: In October 1989, Jobs had agreed to g
by leoh 11y ago
Not totally an answer to your question, but a nice section from Isaacson's biography about Jobs about how he met Paulene:
In October 1989, Jobs had agreed to give one of the "View from the Top" lectures at Stanford Business School one Thursday evening. Lauren Powell was a new graduate at business school.
She arrived late and all the seats were taken, so they sat in the aisle. When an usher told them they had to move, Powell took her friend down to the front row and commandered two of the reserved seats there. Jobs was led to to the one next to her when he arrived. "I looked to my right, and there, so we started chatting while I was waiting to be introduced", Jobs recalled. They bantered a bit, and Lauren joked that she was sitting there because she had won a raffle, and the prize was that she he got to take her to dinner. "He was so adorable", she later said.
After the speech Jobs hung around on the edge of the stage chatting with students. He watched Powell leave, then come back and stand at the edge of crowd, then leave again. He bolted out after her, brushing past the Dean, who was trying to grab him for a conversation. After catching up with her in the parking lot, he said, "Excuse me, wasn't there something about a raffle you won, that I'm supposed to take you to dinner?" She laughed. "How about Saturday?" he asked. She agreed and wrote down her number. Jobs headed to his car to drive up to the Thomas Fogarty winery in the Santa Cruz mountains above Woodside, where the NeXT education sales group was holding a dinner. But he suddenly stopped and and turned around. "I thought wow, I'd rather have dinner with her than the education group, so I ran back to her car and said 'How about dinner tonight?" She said yes. It was a beautiful fall evening, and they walked into Palo Alto to a funky vegetarian restaurant, St. Micheal' s alley, and ended up staying there for 4 hours. "We've been together ever since," he said.