A CEO, Captured.
I keep thinking about a line Lawrence Sanders wrote: a character asks whether money makes the world go round. The reply: “I do not believe it is money itself. After all, that is just metal and paper. No, it is the power money confers that makes the world go ’round.”
Power. Comfort. A seat at the table. Or, in this case, the crushing weight of a trillion-dollar valuation that demands constant appeasement. MG Siegler puts it plainly: Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, is captured. And so is the rest of the technology community. This is what happens when valuations trump values.
At a time when the nation is being ripped apart by the brutal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, by ICE agents, Cook is facing criticism for attending the White House premiere of “Melania,” a documentary about the first lady. No one is questioning Jeff Bezos, who attended.
