About Steve Jobs and Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I never met Lisa Brennan-Jobs, and I only met with Steve Jobs at Pixar. When Reed Jobs was born, in 1991, Ed Catmull (then president of Pixar and now CTO of Disney) showed me the email from Steve, on his NeXT workstation, announcing Reed’s birth. Steve used a then-new feature of NeXT email to put a photo and background music in the email.

We all knew about Lisa and that Steve didn’t acknowledge her. There was a sour note as we viewed the announcement, as Steve was treating Reed’s birth with a joy that he clearly didn’t have for his relationship with Lisa.