Tim Cook poised to get $750M final payout from award
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I have no love for apple as a company but they hired this guy to do a job and he did it about 10X as well as anyone expected. I think a lot of folks were expecting another Sculley or Amelio situation.
He is not getting paid in cash, he is getting paid in stock for which he is primarily responsible for the increase in value thereof.
Apple individual/private/corporate consumers and their wallets are responsible for all that growth.
Tim Cook is responsible for the policies, enforcement of policies, commercial-propaganda, and the MASS dissemination of commercial-propaganda that extorted consumers, proliferated human rights violations, destabilized regional and global economies, and severely impacted the environment and ecology of our planet.
As a percentage of the value increase his payout is nominal. Less than 0.1%.
There were a lot more than 1,000 people involved in creating that new business.
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)
Microsoft made some leadership changes - game changing.
Apple - they have done a lot of supply side management (own chips, great supply chain). Has let them continue to pump out insane quantities of cutting edge parts (ie, watch / macbooks / M1 etc) on cutting edge nodes etc at insane margins.
Cook is more of the financial / supply chain guy? So we've seen optimization on that side (vs huge new product catagories). The payoff $ wise is amazing, not sure though if he can do the jobs -> new product catagory type move.
Microsoft was forced to make a leadership change back in 2000 to avoid being broken up.
Gates had to step down because he was the reason why the DOJ went after Microsoft.
Nadella wouldn't be at the helm if it wasn't for the first forced change from Gates to Ballmer
Nobody had to come after Rockefeller at Standard Oil, but at MS there was Ballmer after Gates.
That and also Microsoft was priced for perfection, both financially and socially. Once you ship Windows 95 there not much you can do, there will never be a leap as big and so a natural slowdown in the rate of innovation feels like going backwards
But Ballmer and a "Windows everywhere" mentality held them back, with several massive failures and right offs on the orders of billions of dollars.
There was nothing natural about Microsoft's slow down in the OS market while the computing industry was going through profound form factor and OS changes, and rocketing sales, for a decade or so.
There was. The DOJ is the reason. A huge part of the setback was the morale hit inside the company.
Kinda like "what's the purpose of all this work? If we are successful in the way we want to be, they'll break us up"