Everyone advised Tim Cook to NOT take the Apple job, one meeting with Steve Jobs changed everything

During your interview with Steve, you said within five minutes to throw caution. What did he say? It was an interesting meeting. I had gotten a call several times from the search people that he had employed. And I kept, I was compact, I was happy, and was persistent. And they were persistent. I finally thought, you know, I'm going to go out and take the meeting. Steve created the, I'm in, meet him. And all of a sudden, he's talking about his strategy and his vision, and what he was doing was going 100% into consumer when everybody else in the industry, you couldn't make consumer headed to servers and storage in the enterprise. And I thought, I'd always thought that following the herd was a thing. And the way that he talked, the chemistry was in the room. He and I, I tell, I can work with him. At the problems Apple had, you know, I can make a contribution here. And working with him, and this is a privilege of a lifetime. And so all of a sudden, I thought, I'm doing it. I'm going for it. Of you have your ear that says, man, I was young at the time, but, you know, you come back to do the things that people and stuff, it makes sense. It didn't make sense. And yet my gut said, go for it. And I listened to my gut. There was literally no one around advising me to do it. Michael Dell made a comment a weeks earlier that the CEO, and he was very is and was a very respected CEO of Apple, he close it down, the shareholders that it had. I remember he said that, yeah. Being, he was just saying what everybody, they didn't know Steve Jobs. They didn't know. So in that meeting, I concluded all of those guys are wrong. They don't know. They don't know his vision. They see things in the traditional way, which Steve never did.