By Theodore Schleifer
San Francisco: After then-vice president Joe Biden swore in Kamala Harris as a United States senator in January 2017, they posed for a customary photo in the Capitol with her family. Then she asked her future boss for a favour: Would he indulge in one more photo?
“Come on, everybody,” Harris said, waving in a dozen others. “My extended family is here.”
The first member of Harris’ entourage to approach Biden just happened to be one of the richest people in the world: Laurene Powell Jobs.
Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and president of Emerson Collective, right, introduces US Vice President Kamala Harris at the “In Her Hands” event in Los Angeles, California, in 2022.Credit: Bloomberg
Powell Jobs, the philanthropist who controls a fortune worth more than $US11 billion, stood just behind Biden’s …