Re:Tim Cook poised to get $750M final payout from award
by jchonphoenix on Thursday August 26, 2021 @03:48PM
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I agree with the logic, but I'd argue that the macro trend and market/brand position vs Tim cook has more to do with that 10x return. That is attributable to Jobs over Cook.
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Re:Tim Cook poised to get $750M final payout from award
by zepto on Thursday August 26, 2021 @04:14PM
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I think that’s easily refuted. Jobs of course had more to do with market and brand than Cook, but Cook was responsible for execution even during Jobs tenure. Without Cooks support even Jobs would have probably failed.
Re:Tim Cook poised to get $750M final payout from award
by iseanstevens on Thursday August 26, 2021 @04:24PM
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People often talk as if it was Jobs and Jony Ive that made apples reboot successful.
I believe it was Jobs, Cook, and Ive (more or less in that order).
Early on, Cook was the operations person that helped turn Apple back into a functioning business.
Jobs wanted people to be able to accomplish things with as few buttons as possible.
Ive wanted to make perfect shiny pebbles with 0 buttons.
Cook wanted to make functional supply chains and products that didn’t break under warranty or beyond.
It was a triple point for good progress.
(Jobs, Ive, Cook etc did a phenomenal job re-imagining retail also IMHO)