. >> reporter: according to the book jobs proposed to laurene powell and then didn't mention it again months. after she got pregnant. he remained so detached she moved out but then was there 20 years later when he needed her most. in his quest for perfection he found fault in tim cook. a brilliant executive he told isaacson but he's not really a product person, per se. that is a hell of a comment since cook now has to prove they can create great products without him. the grand question i came away with after finishing this would apple be apple if he had been a nicer guy. >> that's a big question. part of it was just who he was. why do you sometimes get so intense with people? he said that's who i am. i do think that sometimes his temper, whatever it was probably wasn't necessary, may have even been counterproductive but hard to argue with the results which is the type of team he bill and the loyalty he was able to engender. >> here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels. >> reporter: no better proof than the employees only memorial a few days back. how could a tyrant ever leave

and this is on their family vacation. >> kroft: jobs married laurene powell 20 years ago, a former investmento could hold her own with her mercurial husband. >> isaacson: and she's a great balance. he knows to pick strong people to be around him. and he sure did when he married laurene. >> kroft: now, this is... >> isaacson: reed. >> kroft: reed. >> isaacson: his son. reed is very much like his father, except for he has his mother's kindness. eve is a great horseback rider. eve, i think, might someday be in the olympics with horseback riding. erin has a great sense of design, is a really cool kid. >> kroft: his fourth child is lisa brennan-jobs, the daughter jobs had with his girlfriend 33 years ago, and neglected for more than a decade until she moved in with the family as a teenager. isaacson said their reconciliation was important to jobs, because his own birth parents had abandoned him. >> isaacson: he felt there was a hole. he felt something was missing. >> kroft: in 1986, he began searching for his biological mother, and found joanne schieble simpson living in los angeles. >> kroft: did

in her own time there, laurene powell jobs founded a natural foods company as well as a program thatects disadvantaged students with mentors. she will now oversee a roughly $7 billion fortune. money that friends say was never jobs' biggest motivation. >> i asked him what it was like to be a parent and he said, "dean, it's 10,000 times cooler than anything i've ever done." and then he thought about it a little more and said, "that's probably an underestimation." >> reporter: in the end, it wasn't the stage or the products or the next big thing, there was simply a husband and a father. steve jobs died surrounded by family. neil karlinsky, abc news, cupertino, california. >>> and coming up, what if you could stop a migraine with the >>> and coming up, what if you could stop a migraine with the push of a button? sinceise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them. helping millions of americans over the centuries. the strength of a global financia