Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Tim Cook

by Scott Edward Walker on May 30th, 2012

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.”  Each week, we share a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics.  This week, we present Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple and an extraordinary leader.

In this interesting, 15-minute clip (courtesy of AllThingsD), Tim shares some interesting insights, including:

• we’re in the “first inning” of the iPad;
• the tablet market will surpass the PC market;
• “products are about tradeoffs” and “you have to choose”
• Steve Jobs taught that “focus is key”;
• Steve also taught that “the joy is in the journey”;
• “we don’t want to be the developer for the world”;
• the patent wars have “gotten crazy”;
• we put “all of our wood behind a few arrows”;
• Steve was a “genius and a visionary” who is irreplaceable; and
• “I am who I am.”

I hope you enjoy it.  Many thanks, Scott

 

Tags: AllThingsD, Apple, entrepreneur, helping entrepreneurs, investor, iPad, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook