The years of 1991 to 1994 were the worst in Steve’s career. Paradoxically, they were some of the happiest years in his private life. In 1990, at age 35, after his girlfriend Tina Redse had turned down his proposal, he started dating a young Stanford MBA student called Laurene Powell. Laurene was a leggy blonde in the mold of Steve’s taste in women, but she was also very smart and independent — in addition to being a militant vegan. According to Steve, it was love at first sight: he canceled a business meeting to have lunch with her, and the following year, on March 18 1991, they got married in Yosemite. Steve only brought along a couple of guests in the lodge chapel, and the no-frills ceremony was conducted by his long-time Zen guru Kobun Chino. A few months later, Laurene gave birth to Steve’s second child, a baby boy named Reed Paul, after Steve’s alma mater (Reed College) and his father (Paul Jobs).