When Steve Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO in August 2011, he handpicked Tim Cook as his successor.
Cook had been with the company since 1998, and earned the reputation of being an operations mastermind,
dramatically reducing Apple's on-hand inventory and delivering products to customers faster using a technique called "just-in-time manufacturing".
But his greatest work has been performed over the past decade as CEO, when Apple's popularity and growth exploded in a way almost no one expected.
This has led many people to wonder about the man behind the machine⏤Tim Cook,
and what he does on a daily basis to stay at the top of his game.
So, in this video, we're gonna take a peek behind Apple's curtain, and find out what a day in the life of Tim Cook is really like.
He wakes up at 3:45 a.m. , and spends about an hour going through some of the 700 to 800 emails he receives each day.
In an interview with Axios, he explained why, saying,
"I like to ... go through user comments and things like that, and sort of focus on the external people that are so important to us."