Tim Cook took over Apple Inc. in 2011.
Here's a list of his accomplishments:
• Revenue: $108B → $416B (~10–11% CAGR)
• Net income: $26B → $112B (4x+)
• iPhone still dominates (~50–60% of revenue)
• Stock: $13 → $271 (~20x, ~1,900%)
• $800B+ returned via buybacks + dividends
• Stock splits: 7-for-1 (2014), 4-for-1 (2020)
• First to hit $1T, $2T, $3T… now around $4.1T
He also built a services biz doing $100B+/yr, scaled wearables into a Fortune 100–sized segment, and transitioned to in-house silicon.
A great run.
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Posted by RussFaigen
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Can’t attribute an entire company’s performance down to 1 dude
Tim Apple’s performance was quite impressive!
When your good at something it shows.
Now compare it with Jobs.
You should compare it against S&P500 minus apple technically.
Who is Tim Cook? Don’t they mean Tim Apple?
Now chart the lack of investment into innovation since Tim Cook… stagnant. Late to everything, forfeiting the AI race. Just maximize the profit for investors by buying back stock.
And he killed his reputation in one hour at the Oval Office.
Same iPhone. Massive improvement in profitability, services and global scale
Tim Cook cooked
what happened after 2020? mainstream investment through apps? paper inflation money?
They did good with the apple silicon but it is far from everyone needs a nvidia gpu in exactly this moment x10000000.
So why the exponential growth there?
For me Tim Apple was like a dusty fart. Apart from the silicon, it was a train already moving
I don’t love the idea of attributing this to one man, Phelps was a great CEO for Apple, but tbh I think the real story is their hardware arm.
Very excited to see how Ternus brings his experience in hardware to the role. Also very excited to see how Srouji does as hardware’s new head, he was instrumental in the development of silicon.
Bad graph. No units for y axis.
Use a log scale to compare.
Bro is literally a billionaire
Share price is one thing but the innovation has never been worse.