Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Who is Lisa Brennan-Jobs?

Lisa Nicole Brennan-Jobs is an American journalist and magazine writer. She is the daughter of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Chrisann Brennan. Her mother wrote about this relationship in the 2013 book, The Bite in the Apple.

Brennan-Jobs was born in 1978 to 23-year-old Chrisann Brennan, a Bay Area painter, and 23-year-old Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc., in Oregon, United States of America. Her parents had dated on and off since high school. Development of the Apple Lisa computer began in the year of Brennan's birth, just as Apple Computer, the company her father founded, began to experience significant growth. Jobs initially denied paternity, and he and Apple claimed that the name was an acronym for "Local Integrated Software Architecture". Steve Jobs swore in court documents that he could not be Lisa's father because he was "sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child."

Decades later, Jobs admitted to his biographer Walter Isaacson, "Obviously, it was named for my daughter."