Laurene Powell Jobs went from Wall Street bond trader to major philanthropist

Before Laurene Powell Jobs became known for philanthropy, education, climate initiatives and media ownership, her professional life began on Wall Street. After studying at the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School, she joined Goldman Sachs, where she spent three years working in fixed-income trading strategy under Jon Corzine. It was a relatively brief chapter, but it gave her experience in financial markets before her career moved in a very different direction. Reportedly, Powell Jobs met Steve Jobs in 1989 while studying for an MBA at Stanford University, and the couple married two years later.Her interest in education and social opportunity also emerged well before Steve Jobs’s death. As reported by Forbes, she co-founded College Track in 1997, helping students from low-income backgrounds prepare for higher education. After inheriting substantial wealth in 2011, she expanded her work through philanthropy, investment and media, eventually building Emerson Collective into the centre of her activities.How Laurene Powell Jobs began her career on Wall Street before philanthropyPowell Jobs's early professional life was rooted in business and finance. She studied at the Uni...