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It's just investing in the executives. Actually investing in company operations means spending money to get things, not giving away money. Giving Tim Cook a ton
by sabat 16y ago
It's just investing in the executives. Actually investing in company operations means spending money to get things, not giving away money. Giving Tim Cook a ton of money doesn't actually get Apple anything. He could quit tomorrow and Apple wouldn't feel it at all.
- philwelch 16y agoHe could quit tomorrow and Apple wouldn't feel it at all. If any C-level executive at any corporation could quit tomorrow and the company wouldn't feel it at all, that executive needs to be fired. Employees are an investment like anything else.
- sabat 16y agoIt's a rare employee who is not expendable. Tim Cook is not that employee.
- stuff4ben 16y agoIt seems your argument is that executives don't provide any value to a business. That's a pretty shortsighted view of how a real company works. Just because you didn't get a physical "thing" from paying an exec that kind of money doesn't mean he didn't provide value to the business. I guarantee that if you replace Tim Cook with me at Apple's helm, that the shareholders will feel some pretty significant pain.
- jonknee 16y agoTim Cook held the ship steady while Jobs was away. Few people could have done that, Jobs is very central to the day to day operation of Apple. I'd say the stockholders got off cheaply, it amounts to a nickel in share price currently.