What did Jobs name his daughter?
In the face of indisputable facts, Jobs still strongly denied his relationship with Lisa.
Why is Jobs, the genius who founded Apple and led the new mobile phone era, so cold-blooded to his own blood relatives?
The answer lies in Lisa's mother Brennan, who was Jobs's first love and even his "enemy".
Their common daughter Lisa is not so much the crystallization of their parents' love as "the crystallization of hatred".
1954 On September 29th, Brennan was born in Ohio, USA. Her full name is Christian Brennan.
Brennan's parents gave birth to four daughters. Her father works for a large lighting company and has business in many parts of the United States.
Because his father changed his workplace, Brennan often moved with his parents when he was a child and lived in Ohio, Colorado, Nebraska, California and New York. It can be said that most of America has left her footprints.
1972, 18 years old, Brennan met Jobs who was five months younger than her when she was in high school in California.
In that age of youth and ignorance, the relationship between them advanced by leaps and bounds.
When they were young, Jobs and Brennan were married. They go in and out in pairs at school, enjoying the beauty of their relationship like all campus couples.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Jobs is going to college, but Brennan is not going to college.
The difference in life planning made Brennan and Jobs temporarily separated, but they soon found that this relationship could not be let go.
In the following five years, Brennan made many boyfriends, but always maintained a special relationship with Jobs. As long as they meet together, their feelings will heat up rapidly.
Among these men, except Jobs, Steve Jobs' college classmate calhoun impressed Brennan the most.
The relationship between calhoun and Brennan lasted for more than a year. During this period, Jobs kept good friends with both of them and helped them find a rental house.
But at the end of 1975, Brennan decided to go to india tourism with calhoun for one year, and Jobs desperately opposed it.
Brennan didn't take Jobs's advice, but still stubbornly went to India with her boyfriend and lived there for a year as planned.
As a result, there were two people when I went, and only Brennan was left when I came back, because she had already broken up with her boyfriend calhoun before returning to the United States.
After returning to the United States, Brennan, who was single again, first thought of Jobs. She went to Jobs' house as a friend.
Old lovers meet again, love rekindles, and Brennan and Jobs fall in love again.
The year before last, Jobs, who was 2 1 year old, had set up a computer company in partnership with his friends, named the company "Apple" and launched a brand-new personal computer-Apple 1.
1In April, 977, Jobs' company launched Apple 2, and his career was booming.
Her boyfriend is becoming rich at a speed visible to the naked eye, but Brennan is becoming more and more insecure. She thinks her relationship with Jobs has become complicated.
What Brennan wants is a sincere and exclusive relationship, but Jobs wants them to keep the original relationship, that is, both sides are free to date other people.
In order not to make this relationship too serious, Jobs also specially found a company employee to share with him. In that rental house, Jobs, Brennan and employees all have their own rooms.
This strange arrangement made Brennan feel uncomfortable. In her opinion, Jobs didn't seem to regard her as a formal girlfriend, just a roommate who could have sex.
Deeply dissatisfied, Brennan proposed to break up, but Jobs refused. He told Brennan: I can't imagine saying goodbye to you.
In order to appease his girlfriend, Jobs promised Brennan to work at Apple.
However, before becoming a full-time employee, Brennan needs an internship for a while. After all, this company was founded by him and his friends, and the personnel arrangement was not decided by him.
In fact, Brennan still had feelings for Jobs, and because there was no proper job at that time, he agreed to Jobs' arrangement.
However, Jobs' promise was not fulfilled in the end, and Brennan did not become a formal employee of Apple, because an unexpected thing happened.
1977165438+10 In October, just before becoming an official employee of Apple, Brennan found out that she was pregnant.
Because she only had sex with Jobs during that time, Brennan determined that the baby was Jobs'.
A few days later, nervous Brennan told Jobs about it. The other person looked shocked after hearing this, but his whole face became distorted and he lost the joy of being a father.
More than a month later, Jobs found Brennan and said to her: I never wanted you to have an abortion, I just didn't want to do it.
However, Jobs never cared about Brennan's physical condition, let alone discussed pregnancy-related issues with her.
So Brennan judged that although Jobs said he didn't want her to have an abortion, he actually had hope in his heart, and he obviously didn't want to admit the unborn child.
Jobs' attitude made pregnant Brennan desperate and helpless. At the same time, she was afraid to tell her parents about it.
Because Brennan is having a cold war with her mother, the relationship between mother and daughter is very bad. As for her father, Brennan dare not even mention it. She knows what a grumpy father would do.
In desperation, Brennan can only turn to a good friend who runs a farm, and this person is also a friend of Jobs.
1May, 978 17, Brennan gave birth to her daughter on a friend's farm. As a biological father, Jobs missed this important moment, even though he had been told before.
A few days after his daughter was born, Jobs finally came to the farm, and Brennan discussed naming her.
Brennan was very angry. She told Jobs: You 100% are Lisa's father.
The two broke up for this, once fell in love several times, and instantly turned their faces into enemies.
Brennan's economy soon got into trouble because Jobs refused to recognize Lisa as his daughter and refused to pay alimony.
In order to save the rent, she had to take turns staying with several friends. In order to support her daughter, she even worked as a waiter in a hotel.
At the same time, Jobs's wealth increased. Even before Apple went public, he had more money than he could spend.
But every time Brennan asked Jobs for alimony, Jobs refused to provide it and repeatedly claimed that Lisa was not my daughter.
1980, Brennan was unable to continue raising her daughter and took Jobs to court. At the request of the judge, Jobs and Lisa had a paternity test.
The appraisal report shows that there is a 94. 1% probability that Jobs and Lisa are biological fathers and daughters. With the technical conditions at that time, this is the highest accuracy, so it can be concluded that Lisa is Jobs' biological daughter.
But Jobs still refused to admit it, and told the media that 28% of men in the United States could be Lisa's father.
As a result of the appraisal, Brennan won the lawsuit and Jobs paid $385 a month for it.
But strangely, Jobs took the initiative to raise the alimony to $500/month. Since you don't even recognize your daughter, why do you suddenly become so generous? Is it the habit of "rounding"?
Of course not. What Jobs did was related to the upcoming events.
Just a few days later, Apple went public. As one of the founders, Jobs' worth quickly exceeded $200 million and became a new billionaire.
Jobs took the initiative to raise alimony just because he didn't want it to affect Apple's share price. Facts also proved that he was wise to do so, and Brennan, who got alimony, didn't bother him again.
With Jobs' material support, Brennan can finally spend all her energy on her daughter, but she still doesn't want Lisa's childhood to lack fatherly love, so she invited Jobs to visit her daughter.
198365438+1October19, Apple introduced a computer named "Lisa". Brennan was very happy and thought that Jobs finally accepted his daughter.
Unexpectedly, Jobs told her that Lisa computer has nothing to do with her daughter Lisa, which is the abbreviation of "partially integrated software architecture".
But years later, Jobs himself admitted that Lisa's computer was indeed named after his daughter.
It can be seen from this incident that although Jobs denied his daughter at that time, he actually accepted her in his heart, but he could not be too obvious because of his face.
As Lisa grew up, Jobs visited her more and more times, which made Lisa feel the existence of her father, thus making up for the lack of fatherly love to some extent.
But Jobs's love for Lisa was limited. He said clearly to Lisa more than once: You won't get anything from me, nothing.
As it turns out, Jobs thought so until his death.
20 1 1 Before his death, Jobs left his widow Laurena nearly10 billion dollars in his will. As the eldest daughter, Lisa only got a few million dollars in cash.
Jobs is so stingy with his daughter that he certainly won't be generous with his first girlfriend who has no feelings.
Because Lisa, Jobs and Brennan have almost become a pair of "enemies". They have diametrically opposite views on their daughter's upbringing, and both of them are opinionated.
Lisa lived with her mother until she was 14 years old. /kloc-After she was 0/4 years old, she moved to Jobs' house and lived with her stepmother and three half-brothers.
Brennan's mental problems were almost "forced" by Jobs.
She got pregnant without any preparation, and was abandoned by Jobs before giving birth to her daughter. After giving birth to her daughter, she was raised by herself.
All this is beyond the reach of an inexperienced girl in her twenties.
When her daughter grew up and entered adolescence, Brennan was further stimulated by her rebellious personality, resulting in mental symptoms.
As a single mother, Brennan has had a hard time for more than ten years.
Even so, Brennan never got married. Even though Jobs later married Laurena and had children, Brennan remained single.
In 2005, Brennan wrote a letter to Jobs, and they haven't contacted each other for a long time. She wanted Jobs to pay an economic compensation, but she didn't get a reply.
In 2009, Brennan wrote to Jobs again and threatened to write a book about Jobs and her unless Jobs gave her $28 million.
In 2009, Jobs was already one of the top billionaires in the world, worth billions, with a group of fanatical fans.
If Brennan really writes a book about her love experience with Jobs, it will sell well, and many things disclosed in the book will definitely affect the official image of Jobs to some extent.
But Jobs didn't take Brennan's "threat" seriously and didn't pay $28 million according to the other party's request.
In 20 13, just two years after Jobs' death, Brennan published her new book, The Apple Gap, revealing the details of her past with Jobs.
In this book, the image of Jobs is distorted and contradictory, which may also reflect Brennan's true feelings for Jobs: love and hate.
Jobs was a great genius, but he didn't do well enough in dealing with family problems.
Brennan was pregnant before marriage, of course, he was partly responsible, but Jobs was also partly responsible. However, he failed to take this responsibility in time, which led to Brennan's miserable life.
If Brennan wasn't pregnant, maybe everyone would be happy: Brennan wouldn't have to be a single mother, his marriage wouldn't be delayed by raising his daughter, and Jobs wouldn't have to be tortured by the problem of "illegitimate daughter" for half his life.
Unfortunately, there is no if. When Brennan came back from India and rekindled his old relationship with Jobs, the tragedy was actually cast.