Full name: Timothy Donald “Tim” Cook
Born in Alabama on November 1, 1960,
Age: 53
Education: Cook earned a bachelor’s degree of science from Auburn University in 1982 and an MBA from Duke University in 1988.
Cook stayed at Compaq for just six months until meeting Steve Jobs. Apple’s founder was been known to create a “reality distortion field” that changed people’s minds and convinced them to do impossible things.
“Any purely rational consideration of cost and benefits lined up in Compaq’s favor,” Cook said in a 2010 speech at Auburn University. “No more than five minutes into my initial interview with Steve, I wanted to throw caution and logic to the wind and join Apple.
“My intuition already knew that joining Apple was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work for the creative genius, and to be on the executive team that could resurrect a great American company.”
He joined Apple in 1998 as senior vice president for world operations, where he mastered the supply chain. Under his leadership, Apple kept costs down and produced devices more efficiently.
His management style became legendary with in the company. Yukari Iwatani Kane, a former Wall Street Journal Reporter working on a book about Apple after Jobs, described Cook in the workplace.
“From the start of his Apple tenure, Cook set colossally high expectations,” Kane wrote. “He wanted the best price, the best delivery, the best yield, the best everything.”
Cook’s work and Apple’s premium pricing created massive revenue for the company. Despite owning just eight per cent of the desktop PC market, Apple makes 45 per cent of the profits.
In January 2007, Cook became chief operating officer of Apple. He served as interim CEO in 2004 and 2009 when Jobs took medical leave.
When Jobs died in 2011, he became the new permanent CEO of Apple. Cook’s leadership style was the inverse of Jobs’
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