久しぶりに読む伝記シリーズ。Appleの時価総額を世界1位に押し上げたCEO、Tim Cookに関してのインタビューを通じた自叙伝です。
- To get an idea of just how enormous Apple is during Tim Cook’s CEO tenure, consider that the company made $88.3 billion in revenue and $20 billion in profits in Q1 of 2018, as I’m writing this book. By comparison, Facebook, with more than 2.2 billion active users, made just $40.6 billion over all of 2017. Not to mention that in just those three months, Apple made almost as much as its rival Microsoft—once the biggest company in tech—during the entire year of 2017, at $90 billion. (でまあ、この後$1 Trillion companyになるわけですけど)
- Cook’s management style involves organizing teams with dedicated project managers. These leads spearhead the product vision from beginning to end, determining the financing, staff, and resources to see the project through. Under this management style, teams don't act in silos, but rather collaborate and communicate often. They also are given the time to ensure that the project is completed at its highest level, ensuring that the product is ready.
Under Cook’s leadership, Apple has acquired over 100 companies, developed an Oscar-nominated production studio, and expanded its hardware. Additionally, Apple built out its subscription services spanning from iCloud, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Music, which launched in 2011, 2012, and 2015, respectively.In 2018, Apple became the first $1 trillion company by market capitalization. Just two years later, it reached $2 trillion in value.
- His morality is tooted in a Chrien upbringing southern manners, and the teaching of his heroes Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.