Tim Cook: Wall Street and Tech Company

tim cook: For that he has to run the world's most successful tech company, according to The Independent. But that's probably a doddle compared with trying to manage the expectations of Wall Street and the world's media, both of which have an obsession with Apple that sometimes borders on psychosis. Well, perhaps we shouldn't be too sympathetic in 2018 he took home 15,682,219, and his earnings since 2011 are estimated to be not far south of three quarters of a billion dollars. It's not that long, for example, since the fevered speculation about whether Apple would be the first trillion-dollar company reached a climax on 2 August last year when it finally scaled that particular greasy pole. And then on 2 January, in a letter to investors, Tim Cook revealed that he expected revenues for the final quarter of 2018 to be lower than originally forecast. But since October its shares have dropped 20% and it's been overtaken by Microsoft yes, ye olde Microsoft! as the world's most valuable company. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.