{"id":990470,"date":"2026-02-07T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990470"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:13:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:43:03","slug":"will-tim-cook-65-hand-over-the-reins-as-early-as-2026-apple-ceo-opens-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/07\/will-tim-cook-65-hand-over-the-reins-as-early-as-2026-apple-ceo-opens-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Tim Cook, 65, hand over the reins as early as 2026? Apple CEO opens up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s CEO Tim Cook has given one of his clearest signals yet that succession planning is firmly on his mind. Speaking at an all-hands meeting on Thursday, Cook told employees he is \u201cobsessed\u201d with thinking about who will be leading the company in the decades to come. <\/p>\n<p>Cook said he regularly thinks about the leadership pipeline far beyond the near term. \u201cI spend a lot of time thinking about who\u2019s in the room five years from now, 10 years from now,\u201d a report from Times of India stated. \u201cI am obsessed with this \u2014 who\u2019s in the room 15 years from now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s CEO Tim Cook has given one of his clearest signals yet that succession planning is firmly on his mind. Speaking at an all-hands meeting on Thursday, Cook told employees he is \u201cobsessed\u201d with thinking about who will be leading the company in the decades to come. Cook said he regularly thinks about the leadership pipeline far beyond the near term. \u201cI spend a lot of time thinking about who\u2019s in the room five years from now, 10 years from now,\u201d a report from Times of India stated. \u201cI am obsessed with this \u2014 who\u2019s in the room 15 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}