Tim Cook
CEO, Apple
Operating the largest company in the world, and Swift
Rating
90Impact score
Domains
Supply chainConsumer devicesSilicon
Scouting report
Joined Apple in 1998 and rebuilt its supply chain into the most efficient operation in consumer electronics, then took over in 2011 and grew the company past a three trillion dollar valuation. The move to Apple Silicon was the largest architecture migration any consumer platform has attempted. Apple open-sourced Swift in 2015 and funds LLVM, Clang and WebKit.
Curator’s note
The logistics person who turned out to be the right kind of successor.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Tim Cook by Tessa Bury, licensed CC BY 4.0.
Sources
- 01Tim Cook en.wikipedia.org
- 02Swift (programming language) en.wikipedia.org
- 03Apple silicon en.wikipedia.org