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  • The Tim Cook moment

    Kara Swisher on Tim Cook:

    Otherwise, he eschewed the limelight during his first years, seeming to prefer to keep up that behind-the-scenes persona intact, despite the fact that he held the most high-profile job in Silicon Valley. This is in drastic contrast to everyone else in tech, who share — with great calculation, of course — quite a bit about their personal lives for the media.

    Google’s Sergey Brin kite-surfs! Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is a space nut! SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk wants to die on Mars! Twitter’s Dick Costolo was once a stand-up comic! Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is taking Chinese lessons! Box’s Aaron Levie sure is a funny tweeter!

    About Cook, nothing.

    Great piece, sparked by Tim Cook’s extraordinary essay where he officially tells the world he’s gay.

  • Tim Cook

    Tim Cook, CEO of Apple (for those of you living under a rock), is gay:

    For years, I’ve been open with many people about my sexual orientation. Plenty of colleagues at Apple know I’m gay, and it doesn’t seem to make a difference in the way they treat me. Of course, I’ve had the good fortune to work at a company that loves creativity and innovation and knows it can only flourish when you embrace people’s differences. Not everyone is so lucky.

    While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven’t publicly acknowledged it either, until now. So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

    Two things:

    1. This is a strong piece. Tim Cook tells it like it is, in his point of view obviously, bit by bit. It means a lot, more to some, no doubt, but still a lot.
    2. Trying to brush this under the carpet, to be flippant about this piece, or say that it shouldn’t be necessary to say these things is belittling the struggle of minorities. There’s no doubt in my mind that these things need to be said, over and over again, eapecially by celebrities and powerful people like Mr. Cook.

    Publishing this shows great integrity. It’s not chance that this is the man that gets to lead Apple. Well done.