Steve Jobs’ Daughter Pens Sad Memoir About Their Often Brutal Relationship

Lisa Brennan-Jobs has written a memoir depicting her relationship with her father, Steve Jobs, and the often heart-breaking memories times that she remembers with the Apple CEO. She claims that she wanted to be close to him, to have a normal relationship with him. “The closer I was to him, the less I would feel ashamed; he was part of the world, and he would accelerate me into the light.”

Jobs initially denied paternity of Lisa when she was born in 1978, and after he was court-ordered to take a paternity test and to pay child support, he attempted to finalize all pay outs for the child just 4 days before Apple would go IPO – making him a highly wealthy individual.

Lisa writes that her father was never “generous with money, or food, or words.” When asked if she could get his old Porsche when he replaced it – supposedly for getting a “scratch” on it, Jobs replied that, “You’re not getting anything. “You understand? Nothing. You’re getting nothing.”

See Shona Ghosh, ‘You’re Getting Nothing’: Steve Jobs’ Daughter Pens Sad Memoir About Their Often Brutal Relationship, San Francisco Gate, August 2, 2018.

Special thanks to Joel C. Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this article to my attention.