Tim Cook
11 statements across 11 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jan 16, 2025 by Jordi Hays · said 224 times in 57 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Jordi Hays (32), John Coogan (32), Mark Gurman (20), Marc Andreessen (4), Palmer Luckey (3), Martin Shkreli (2), Eddy Cue (2), Keith Rabois (1)
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2026 114 mentions in 26 episodes 4 per episode
- Apple’s New CEO John Ternus, Ferrari’s First EV | Diet TBPN
- Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN
- AI Needs a Steve Jobs, Meta’s Nuclear Powerplants, a16z raises $15B | Diet TBPN
- WWDC Reactions, Claude Fable 5 Debuts, McAfee Eyes ESPN Mega Deal | Diet TBPN
- Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
- Another AI Safety Kerfuffle, Markiplier’s Stake in GoPro, SpaceX Getting Into Turbines | Diet TBPN
- Apple-Intel Chip Deal, U.S Adds 115K Jobs, DeepSeek Eyes $50B Valuation | Diet TBPN
- Oil Market Turbulence, Sundar's New Comp Package, TBPN Weather Report | Diet TBPN
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 105 mentions in 27 episodes 4 per episode
- Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- Mark Gurman on Apple Glasses Release Date, The Next AirPods, The Problem With Siri & More
- Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers, Apple’s Leadership Shakeup, SpaceX Prepares For IPO | Diet TBPN
- The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
- Jeff Bezos’ New AI Startup, Yann LeCun Says LLMs are a Dead End, Thiel Fund Sells NVIDIA | Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- Paramount Strikes Back, Ads In Gemini, Bieber’s Apple Beef | Diet TBPN
- 19 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
Everything said about Tim Cook, oldest first
Jan 16, 2025 bullish
Hays: Tim Cook Being More Personable Could Add $1T to Apple
“Tim Cook, I think, could take Apple from a three to a four trillion dollar market cap just by being a little more personable and being like, yeah, the Photos app is terrible. I'm sorry. The alarm app is terrible. I'm sorry. Battery life is terrible. I'm sorry.…”
Feb 8, 2025 bearish
Hays: Tim Cook lacks the visionary leadership to win post-iPhone computing
“I do think that it will become more and more clear that Tim Cook seems to be able to generally manage this, like, luxury brand type version of Apple, but it doesn't feel obvious that they have this sort of visionary product leadership that's going to have them…”
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Andreessen: Tim Cook Shipping Vision Pro Shows Positive Drive to Innovate
“One of the, you know, things you could say about, you know, Tim is his, you know, his willingness to kind of break the mold of Apple only shifts perfect products, but, you know, be willing, be being willing to ship the You know, the vision pro you know, it sho…”
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Nov 4, 2025 neutral
Dec 17, 2025 negative
Apr 1, 2026 positive
Cue: Tim Cook and Steve Jobs share an unmatched work ethic
“When people ask me what's the difference between Tim and Steve, the reality is that's not the right question. The question is what's the same things between Tim and Steve. And you know, their work ethic, they worked harder than anybody. They were completely fo…”
Apr 22, 2026 neutral
Gurman: Jeff Williams Would Have Been CEO if Cook Left Earlier
“You look at the guy who would have been CEO if Tim Cook didn't stay so long. I'm not saying he shouldn't have stayed so long. He's done, obviously, a fantastic job for shareholders and employees and what have you, would have been Jeff Williams.”
May 12, 2026 neutral
Jul 30, 2026 bearish
Shkreli: Big Tech FOMOed into AI capex as hard as Leopold Aschenbrenner
“You had the hyperscalers and the big companies, they FOMO'd too. They FOMO'd just as hard as Leopold did, right? If not harder. So this isn't just him. It's the whole world collectively saying, fuck, I gotta go all in in AI. And it's, and who had the guts, you…”