Did you know that Steve Jobs paid $385 in child support for daughter Lisa?

With Apple hitting $1-trillion market value, here’s a breakdown — in numbers — of the co-founder’s troubled relationship with his daughter.

Apple recently became the first listed American company to hit a valuation of a trillion dollars. To better understand the hoopla, taking a closer look at the number of zeroes helps:

$1 trillion = 10,00,00,00,00,000 = Rs 69 lakh crore (approx)
The company’s legendary founder Steve Jobs may not be around to witness this achievement. But if he was, it would have been an important week for him.


While his company made history, his first-born, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, just shared an excerpt, focused on her relationship with her famous father, from her upcoming memoir. The numbers mentioned in that excerpt may not be as high but they are as telling as this trillion-dollar figure.

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Jobs’s age when Chrisann Brennan delivered their daughter Lisa

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Midwives helped deliver Lisa at her parents’ friend, Robert’s farm in Oregon, US.

Also Read: Steve Jobs hadn't named Apple's Lisa after his daughter

94.99%
The accuracy of the DNA test that two- year-old Lisa was required to take. Initially, Jobs refused to acknowledge her as his daughter, claiming that he was sterile.

$385
The monthly child support a court ordered Jobs to pay after the DNA test results. The initial figure of $385 was bumped up to $500 per month till Lisa turned 18. Quick math, that is $1,08,000 for 18 years.



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Just four days after Jobs agreed to pay a monthly three-digit sum for his first born’s maintenance, Apple went public, and he became a millionaire.

$200 million plus
His estimated net worth after the listing at the time.

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Temporary homes that she lived in with her single mother. Lisa’s childhood wasn’t one that was defined by stability. She writes in her memoir that by the time she was seven, her mother and she had changed several houses. This, despite her father, being a millionaire.

3,000
During the time when Chrisann was pregnant, Jobs started “work on a computer that would later be called the Lisa. It was the precursor to the Macintosh”. The Lisa computer was eventually a failure and 3,000 of these machines ended up at a landfill in Logan, Utah.

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Lisa’s age when Jobs admit ted that the failed computer model was named after his daughter. When she was in high school, she asked him about it. But Jobs denied it then. He finally admitted it while having lunch somewhere of f the coast of the South of France at U2 singer Bono’s house.