Is the ceo of apple gay
Apple CEO Tim Cook Comes Out As Gay
Tim Cook, the leader of the world's most iconic technology company, has show up out today in an op-ed on Bloomberg Businessweek, saying he's never denied his sexual orientation but "I haven't publicly acknowledged it either, until now.
"Being gay has given me a deeper understanding of what it means to be in the minority and provided a window into the challenges that people in other minority groups deal with every day," Cook writes.
"Plenty of colleagues at Apple comprehend I'm gay, and it doesn't appear to make a difference in the way they cure me," he says.
"It's made me more empathetic, which has led to a richer existence. It's been tough and uncomfortable at times, but it has given me the confidence to be myself, to follow my possess path, and to rise above adversity and bigotry," he writes. "It's also given me the skin of a rhinoceros, which comes in handy when you're the CEO of Apple."
Cook said he doesn't consider himself an activist, "but I realize how much I've benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or take comfort to any
Why Tim Cook, a private dude, voluntarily came out about his sexuality, says people used pos ‘normal’ to describe ‘straight’
But what has remained a topic of conversation is what took Cook so long?
The 62-year-old CEO of Apple, who was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1960 and grew up in Robertsdale where his father worked in a shipyard, had a different childhood growing up which in return made him feel that he was fundamentally different.
Growing up in Robertsdale where there was no internet and also very slim hope of finding people who were similar to you, fix the template for the way Cook still sees himself.
"When I was growing up there was no internet, and therefore you didn't find a lot of people like you around," Boil revealed in an in-depth interview to GQ.
The Apple CEOwho prefers to stay off the radar and not indulge in showing many details about him or his personal life, spoke unfiltered to the world when he came out in the 2014 opinion article in Bloom
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Cook, who publicly came out last October as homosexual in an essay written for Bloomberg Businessweek, said "being gay has given me a deeper sympathetic of what it means to be in the minority and provided a window into the challenges that people in other minority groups deal with every day."
"I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," he wrote.
For a company that burst onto the personal computing market in the Steve Jobs era with the slogan "think different," Apple employees have also heard another call to action from Cook: "Inclusion inspires innovation."
"All around the world, our team at Apple is united in the belief that existence different makes us better," Cook wrote when Apple's diversity report was released last year.
Apple's CEO is now openly gay. Is that progress?
Apple CEO Tim Cook made history last week, becoming the first Fortune 500 CEO to break through the steel ceiling of heterosexual privilege in the business world when he disclosed in Businessweek that he is "proud to be gay." Despite Cook’s insistence that he has long been open with many people about his sexual orientation, his decision to encourage the public into an otherwise confidential area of his life rightly deserves praise as some commentators have noted. However, the equal factors which build Cook’s "coming-out" come exceptional and noteworthy are the very features, privileges actually, which are absented in the lives of so many LGBT people. For some, it literally pays to be gay. But for so many others, coming out costs.
Cook is a multi-millionaire. He was number 19 on Forbes' 2013 The World’s Most Powerful People list, placing him among 71 others "who rule the world." According to Forbes, Cook was paid $4.2 million in 2012.
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