Tim Cook
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Penny Pritzker · said 27 times in 18 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2025 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
- Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 18 mentions in 13 episodes 1 per episode
- a16z Podcast | How Many Taps in the Apple (Plus) Tree?
- a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
- a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
- Security and Privacy for Crypto with Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption
- a16z Podcast | What's at the Core of the Latest Apple Announcement?
- a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
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Everything said about Tim Cook, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019
Pritzker: Indonesian minister asked her to recruit Apple despite hostile data laws
“When I was first in this job, I'm in Indonesia, and a minister comes to me and says, we really want apple here in Indonesia, and would you please call Tim Cook? We'd like apple. I said, you know, look, I'm happy to call Tim Cook, but you are, Putting in place …”
Jun 18, 2025 positive
Sep 22, 2025 negative
Patel: Apple has lacked visionary innovation under Tim Cook for a decade
“The reason why Apple hasn't done anything interesting in like, you know, nearly a decade is, is, you know, they've got a not visionary at the head. Tim Cook's greatest supply chain. And they're just plowing the money into buybacks.”