Tag: Tim Cook
Apple CEO Tim Cook mentions Stonewall and self-censorship at Stanford graduation
Where some schools are banning gay speakers, Stanford invited Apple’s openly gay CEO, Tim Cook to address its graduates today. While much of the speech was about Silicon Valley needing to accept responsibility, the Tim Cook Stanford speech used the 50th anniversary of Stonewall to make a point about the importance of leaving a legacy for the future.
Choking up during the speech, Cook told the gathered Stanford graduates:
“In a few days, we will mark the 50th anniversary of the...
Barbra Streisand Got Tim Cook To Change How Siri Pronounces Her Name In Ultimate...
We’d expect nothing less: when Barbra Streisand found that Siri couldn’t pronounce her name, she didn’t just give up in defeat. She made them fix Siri.
That news came out in a lovely new NPR interview in which the star charms the pants off of Scott Simon (probably not literally but then again you never know). At one point during the interview, she showed off by asking Siri “who’s was the only female vocalist who’s had hit records for six straight decades?”
“Barbra...
How Anderson Cooper Helped Apple CEO Tim Cook Come Out As Gay
Apple‘s Tim Cook said Anderson Cooper had an important influence on his decision to come out as gay, which he did in 2014, making him the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to do so.
Cook spoke with the Washington Post in a wide ranging interview on Saturday, and answered questions about his coming out process. Cook says it took about a year.
“Just thinking through what to say, how to say it, where to say it, how to do that in...
