Tim Cook

“You probably need Tim Cook to like nicely retire into supply chain management and promote someone who's a real visionary leader who has a vision for the company that isn't, you know, more efficiency.”

“If the Democrats take the House, we're talking in 20 months, there will be a corruption committee convened, which will have Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and whoever talking in great detail, but every penny that was directed, and, you know, and I t…”

“Laureen is clearly in team open AI in this In this battle playing out. And that, you know, she has had longstanding, obviously, relationships with Altman, and it's all relational, but I think it's interesting. And I do think that there's a time when it would h…”

“This is a transition plan with John Ternus, who we should talk about, taking over as CEO, and Tim Cook staying on as executive chairman, and him taking on some of the going to the White House diplomatic kind of roles.”

“If you're executive chairman, then if shit goes wrong, you can step back in. Yeah. It's not a full transition.”

“The CEO job that John Ternus is inheriting is not the CEO job that Tim Cook inherited. Like, this is more of an alphabet moment, I think, for Apple. Like this is a three trillion dollar, four trillion dollar company that is, you know, has an enormously importa…”

“I think it will still be very much a cook call, you know, how they're deciding, what are they doing with their manufacturing? What are they doing with their China business”

“Tim had been telling everyone he knows how tired he is for years, and how he doesn't want the job anymore, and how exhausting it is.”

“Like the system on a chip, the SOC decision, I think will go down as one of the most strategically important technology decisions that happened in Silicon Valley in this era.”

“This is my being really cynical snarky, but the cynical snarky take is in about 15 years, you can supply chain optimize the hell out of a company and make stock go way up, but then Apple better figure out how to not be Nike, right, and come up with the innovat…”

“So I'm going to bet that it's kind of one of these accidental genius moves, right? Which is that he goes down in history and Apple looks Fucking great, because they avoided a incinerator box of cash, and they're gonna be on top in 10 years.”