Sahil Bloom: Chatted with Tim Cook for six months without recognizing him
Sahil Bloom · The New Rich Do This | Sahil Bloom · Feb 5, 2025 · at 19:42
Author Sahil Bloom recounts how he unintentionally met and befriended Apple CEO Tim Cook while working out at 4:45 AM at an Equinox gym in Palo Alto in 2014.
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“So six months go by and I'm like talking to all these people early in the morning. And I was having a conversation with one guy and I walk away and someone comes up to me and is like, do you know who that is? That guy you were just talking to? And I was like, I don't know. That's the guy, like one of the guys that's here. And he goes, that's Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple. And I was like, oh shit. Cause I've probably been saying the dumbest stuff to this guy for the last six months.”
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