Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple Computers, married Laurene Powell in 1991.
On New Year's Day 1990, Jobs proposed with "a bunch of freshly gathered wildflowers." Laurene Powell, a new MBA student, crept to the front of the lecture and struck up a discussion with Jobs, who was sitting next to her. That night, they ended up eating dinner together. On March 18, 1991, they married in a Buddhist ceremony at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.
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