Steve Jobs painted as romantic teen in ‘Rolling Stone’

“Many people know Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as an exacting tech visionary. Fewer know him as a romantic, a poet or a costumed ‘Alice in Wonderland’ character at a California shopping mall,” Rachel Metz reports for The Associated Press.

“These latter characteristics help make up the portrait of Jobs painted by his first serious girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan, in a ‘Rolling Stone’ story that was shared exclusively with The Associated Press before hitting newsstands Friday,” Metz reports.

“Brennan and Jobs met in 1972, when he was a senior and she was a junior at Cupertino’s Homestead High School,” Metz reports. “In the piece, she recounts her adventures with a 17-year-old Jobs that summer, from moving into a cabin together to getting paid to portray ‘Alice’ characters at a local mall.”

Read more in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]

4 Comments

  1. “Brennan’s piece will run in “Rolling Stone” alongside a cover story by Jeff Goodell, an early Apple employee who has written about the company for the past 17 years. In his article, Goodell describes Jobs’ business savvy, as well as the “abrasive personality” and “unapologetic brutality” that those who worked intensely with him experienced.”

    As I said earlier, the media replay and retell the same old stories for decades. Some even made a career on that.

    Since early Apple and Next days, Jobs became less much despotic — many people manage to work with him for the last 10-20 years since they understand that Jobs’ abrasiveness is actually nothing personal and that he actually respects his co-workers very much.

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