{"id":10801,"date":"2017-06-15T11:31:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T11:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/president_tim_cook.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:30:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:30:25","slug":"president-tim-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/president-tim-cook.html","title":{"rendered":"President Tim Cook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last December we analyzed <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/political\/president-zuckerberg-the-top-28-ceo-choices-for-us-president.html\">28 CEOs that could potentially become the next president<\/a> of the United States. At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was rumored to be considering a run. This past May in fact it was discovered there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/05\/24\/zuckerberg-super-pac-presidential-run-disrupt-america\/#KZzejZjeuaqT\">PAC<\/a> looking to draft him into considering it.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Cook just had an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2017-06-15\/apple-s-tim-cook-on-donald-trump-the-homepod-and-the-legacy-of-steve-jobs\">interview<\/a> with BusinessWeek and as Gizmodo <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/so-uh-is-tim-cook-running-for-president-too-1796130391\">noticed<\/a>, some of his answers seem more political than you might expect. Not overtly but in the sense that he seems to be positioning himself to appeal to moderates.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples include that he feels responsible for growing U.S. jobs, pushing for programming courses in schools, pushing for improved healthcare for veterans.<\/p>\n<p>This is what we said about him last year:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Tim Cook<\/strong>&nbsp;would obviously run as a Democrat as he has already aligned himself quite closely with the DNC. He has the operational skill to run a large enterprise but it is unclear if he has the charisma to get the job done.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We still think he has the operational smarts to do the job and his moderate view puts him in similar company with Michael Bloomberg but he hasn&#8217;t gotten more charismatic in the past six months so its doubtful he&#8217;d get very far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last December we analyzed 28 CEOs that could potentially become the next president of the United States. At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was rumored to be considering a run. This past May in fact it was discovered there is a PAC looking to draft him into considering it. Tim Cook just had an interview with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,1682,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11250,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions\/11250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}