The making of Tim Cook: How Apple's departing CEO went from 'the genius behind Steve Jobs' to a star in his own right

The making of Tim Cook: How Apple's departing CEO went from 'the genius behind Steve Jobs' to a star in his own right

Fortune’s reporting from 2008 to 2017 traces Cook’s rise from operations chief to an Apple CEO.

The making of Tim Cook: How Apple’s departing CEO went from ‘the genius behind Steve Jobs’ to a star in his own right

When Fortune first put Tim Cook on its cover in 2008, senior writer Adam Lashinsky introduced him as the “under-the-radar guy” who might someday succeed Steve Jobs as Apple CEO—a “genius” and an “operations whiz,” but also a “blank slate” to outsiders. Cook himself resisted the notion that he…