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Apple at $3tn: The enigma of Tim Cook

By Patrick McGee
Financial Times·
11 mins to read

While Steve Jobs is considered a visionary leader, his successor has presided over an astonishing record in value creation.

Two years after the death of Steve Jobs, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison claimed it was inevitable Apple would struggle under Tim Cook. You only had to look, he said, at what happened to the company in the period after Jobs was ousted in 1985.

"We already know. We saw. We conducted the experiment," Ellison told talk show host Charlie Rose in

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