The Operator
Execution, delivery and performance, gets the hard thing done.
Tim Cook reads as The Operator because his defining contribution to Apple was converting Steve Jobs's creative vision into one of the most precise, accountable, and resilient supply chains in corporate history. He restructured manufacturing relationships, stripped out inventory inefficiency, and built the execution infrastructure that let the iPhone era scale globally. Cook does not claim the original idea.
“We've never believed that these detailed profiles of people that have incredibly deep personal information that is patched together from several sources should exist, that the connection of all of these dots That you could use them in such devious ways if someone wanted to do that, that this was one of the things that were possible in lif…”
“But I'm not making fun of it. No, I don't. But I'm just saying, but it's not what we want to put in our store. We want kids to go to the store, right? Because kids, there's a lot of learning, education apps in the store. And so we've always done that. We've worked for the music industry to code things explicit.”
“Well, I want America to be strong first and foremost. I want America to be strong. And I believe that one base for that is I think everyone needs to learn to code. I think that in today's environment, software touches everything we do all day long from the way you get your news to the way you order things.”
“And some of the things they've said are unbelievably distasteful. And I don't even think represent their members well, right? From the people that I know from my heritage in the South and so forth. But their point of view, along with the alternate point of view, I think it's actually important for the public to hear that.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Tim Cook”
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