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Joanna Hoffman (Joanna Karine Hoffman) was born on 27 July, 1953 in Poland, is an American computer developer, Apple, NeXT. Discover Joanna Hoffman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

Popular As Joanna Karine Hoffman
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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 27 July 1953
Birthday 27 July
Birthplace Poland
Nationality Poland

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Who Is Joanna Hoffman's Husband?

Her husband is Alain Rossmann

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Parents Jerzy Hoffman Marlena Nazarian
Husband Alain Rossmann
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Children 2

Joanna Hoffman Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Joanna Hoffman worth at the age of 70 years old? Joanna Hoffman’s income source is mostly from being a successful computer. She is from Poland. We have estimated Joanna Hoffman's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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1955

Joanna Karine Hoffman (born July 27, 1955) is a Polish-American marketing executive.

She was one of the original members of both the Apple Macintosh team and the NeXT team.

At the time she began at Apple Computer, the Mac was "still a research project".

Her position "constituted the entire Macintosh marketing team for the first year and a half of the project", which included Product Marketing collaboration on the Mac product design itself.

She also wrote the "first draft of the Macintosh User Interface Guidelines".

Hoffman would eventually run the International Marketing Team which brought the Mac to Europe and Asia.

Hoffman was born in Poland, the daughter of film director Jerzy Hoffman and his Armenian former wife Marlena Nazarian.

She lived with her mother in the Armenian SSR until age 10, when she went to live with her father in Warsaw, Poland.

1967

In 1967, her mother married an American and moved to Buffalo, New York.

1968

Hoffman joined them in the United States in 1968.

Hoffman quickly became fluent in English and excelled in school.

She has a background in anthropology, physics, and linguistics, a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and pursued a doctorate (which she did not complete) in archaeology at the University of Chicago at the Oriental Institute.

1979

In 1979, she was scheduled to travel to Iran for an archaeology dig.

She stopped in Poland to visit her grandmother and received word from Iran that she would have to return to the United States because of the Iranian Revolution.

Hoffman was on a leave of absence from the University of Chicago when she was encouraged by her friends to attend a lecture at Xerox PARC in California.

While there, she had "a heated discussion after the lecture" with Jef Raskin.

The discussion focused on "what computers should look like and how they should improve people's lives."

Raskin was so impressed with Hoffman that he asked her to interview for a position at Apple.

1980

She began on the Macintosh project in October 1980 as part of Raskin's initial team of Burrell Smith, Bud Tribble, and Brian Howard.

At the time she began, the Mac was "still a research project" Her position "constituted the entire Macintosh marketing team for the first year and a half of the project," which included Product Marketing collaboration on the Mac product design itself.

She also wrote the "first draft of the Macintosh User Interface Guidelines."

Hoffman would eventually run the International Marketing Team which brought the Mac to Europe and Asia.

She later followed Steve Jobs to NeXT, as one of its original members.

Hoffman had a reputation at both Apple and NeXT as one of the few who could successfully engage with Jobs.

1981

In both 1981 and 1982, she won a satirical award at Apple given to "the person who did the best job of standing up to Jobs".

(Jobs was aware of and liked the award.)

1990

During the early 1990s, Hoffman was vice president of Marketing at General Magic, retiring in 1995 to spend more time with her family.

On occasion she has given public lectures discussing her early life at Apple and working with Steve Jobs.

2013

Abigail McConnell portrayed Hoffman in the 2013 film Jobs.

2015

English actress Kate Winslet portrayed Hoffman in the 2015 film Steve Jobs.

Winslet won the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and was nominated for the Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award in the same category for her performance.

On the nature of the relationship between Hoffman and Jobs, Winslet described her as Jobs' "work wife", and that "she was an extraordinary, feisty Eastern European person who was pretty much the only person who could actually knock sense into Steve".

2020

In 2020 she was hired by the Spanish artificial intelligence company Sherpa as a consultant and the right-hand of its founder and CEO Xabi Uribe Etxebarria.

Hoffman has a very negative opinion of Facebook.

In an interview she said Facebook is "destroying the very fabric of democracy, destroying the very fabric of human relationships, and peddling in an addictive drug called anger."

Hoffman is married to Alain Rossmann, a native of France, who also worked on the Mac team at Apple, with whom she has two sons.