Heartbreaking reason Steve Jobs named one of Apple's earliest computers after his first born daughter
There is a heartbreaking reason why Steve Jobs named one of the earliest Apple computers after his first born daughter.
The late Apple co-founder gave a sentimental touch to his product when naming one of the firm’s first computers.
Naming the PC Lisa, Jobs explained at first that it was an acronym for ‘local integrated systems architecture’.
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Later though, he admitted that it was actually named after his first born child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs.
And the reason behind it is heartbreaking.
Christann Brennan, Jobs’ high school sweetheart, gave birth to Lisa in 1978, just two years after Apple was launched.
However, Jobs refused to acknowledge his daughter and even denied that she was really his child right up until she was nine years old.
This was when a DNA test proved that Jobs was in fact her father.
Despite this, the pair grew close in the tech mogul’s later years.
In 1991, Jobs tied the knot with his wife Laurene and the couple went on to have three children, Reed, Eve, and Erin.
When Jobs passed away in 2011, he left behind an enormous wealth of $10 billion. But none of his children got a slice of the fortune.
As a way to ensure that his kids paved their own way in life, Jobs refused to leave behind any inheritance for them.
Walter Isaacson, who is author of the biography Steve Jobs, said that Jobs had once told him: “I did not want to live that nutso lavish lifestyle that so many people do when they get rich.
“I saw a lot of other people at Apple, especially after we went public, how it changed them and a lot of people thought that they had to start being rich. I mean, a few people went out and bought Rolls Royces, and they bought homes, and their wives got plastic surgery.
“I saw these people who were really nice simple people turn into these bizarro people. And I made a promise to myself, I said I’m not gonna let this money ruin my life.”
It seems the tech billionaire wanted to instill the same principles to his children.
In an interview with The New York Times, Laurene also revealed that Jobs hated the process of ‘legacy wealth building’.
At the age of just 25, Jobs was placed on the Forbes’ richest people in America list, and he prided himself in the fact that he was one of very few people who had made it to the list without achieving wealth with the help of inheritance.