Amaya Toman Steve Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, rarely gives interviews. This year, however, she made an exception in this direction, and in one of the rare interviews, she shared how her company, called Emerson Collective, smoothly continues the philanthropic activity that Laurene Powell Jobs started with her husband during his lifetime. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Laurene Powell Jobs said, among other things, that she would like to correct some assumptions regarding the Emerson Collective and her person.
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Flying around the world with Apple The main reason why Laurene Powell Jobs decided to give an interview again after a long time, according to her own words, was an effort to correct misunderstandings and set the right some misconceptions about the management of Emerson Collective. "There is a perception that we are not transparent and secretive...but nothing could be further from the truth," she stated, among other things, in an interview.
The Emerson Collective is described on its website as an organization that brings together "entrepreneurs and academics, artists, community leaders and others to create solutions that spark measurable and lasting change." The scope of the organization's activities is quite broad compared to a number of other philanthropic companies, which mostly focus on a narrow range of specific goals. This fact, together with the fact that Emerson Collective is closer to a limited liability company in its status and not a typical charitable foundation, may arouse doubts and mistrust in some. But it is said status that, according to Laurene Powell Jobs, allows her organization to invest purely at its own discretion.
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"Money drives our work," Powell Jobs said in an interview, adding that she definitely does not want to use money as a form of power. “Having money as a tool with which we seek to manifest good is a gift. I take it very, very seriously,” he says. In the interview, she further stated that Emerson Collective's activity consists of a combination of philanthropy and profitable investments, which it then uses to support activities that can have a significant benefit to humanity - The Wall Street Journal mentions in this context, for example, the ownership of The Atlantic magazine or the support of the Chicago CRED initiative , which fights against guns in the city.
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The Emerson Collective was built on the foundations of the plans that the Jobs created during Jobs' lifetime. The Jobs agreed on most of the principles, and Laurene Powell Jobs was thus, according to her words, clear about the direction in which her philanthropic activity would go. "I'm not interested in wealth. Working with people, listening to them and helping them solve problems is interesting to me," said Laurene Powell Jobs for the Wall Street Journal in connection with the activities of the Emerson Collective.
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Powell Jobs recently partnered with Tim Cook and Joe Ive she founded the Steve Jobs Archive, containing a number of previously unpublished materials and documents relating to the late Apple founder. Tim Cook obviously does not avoid working with Lauren Powell Jobs, but he is not involved in the Emerson Collective, although he is no stranger to philanthropy and charity.
