{"id":234133,"date":"2026-04-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/no-pressure-apples-new-ceo-needs-to-be-steve-jobs-and-tim-cook-at-the-same-time\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:15:12","slug":"no-pressure-apples-new-ceo-needs-to-be-steve-jobs-and-tim-cook-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/no-pressure-apples-new-ceo-needs-to-be-steve-jobs-and-tim-cook-at-the-same-time\/","title":{"rendered":"No pressure: Apple\u2019s new CEO needs to be Steve Jobs and Tim Cook at the same time"},"content":{"rendered":"

No pressure: Apple\u2019s new CEO needs to be Steve Jobs and Tim Cook at the same time<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/21\/business\/apple-new-ceo-nightcap<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-21 18:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\n A version of this story appeared in CNN Business\u2019 Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.\n<\/p>\n

New York<\/span>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span>\n <\/p>\n

\n John Ternus may have just landed the best and worst CEO job on the planet.\n <\/p>\n

\n When Ternus takes over as Apple\u2019s CEO in September, investors will be eager for a return to the kind of bold, creative action that made Apple a design pioneer <\/strong>under Steve Jobs. They\u2019ll also expect Tim Cook-level mastery of Apple\u2019s sprawling operations. And they\u2019ll want to see the new guy do more than just emulate his predecessors \u2014 he must embody Apple\u2019s \u201cthink different\u201d mantra and put his own stamp on the Ternus Era.\n <\/p>\n

\n So, yeah, congrats on the promotion, John! All you have to do now is steer a $4 trillion company and its 166,000 employees through the wilderness of the artificial intelligence boom and\/or bust, come up with a blockbuster product on par with the iPhone and avoid pissing off any of the governments \u2014 like China, India and the United States, all of which have competing interests \u2014 that hold the keys to your suppliers\u2019 factories. No pressure!\n <\/p>\n

\n Of course, any CEO gig is a tall order, but the weight of expectations only grows when it\u2019s one of the biggest companies in the world and you\u2019re the third guy to follow to two back-to-back showstoppers.\n <\/p>\n

\n Cook announced Monday that he would step down at the end of the summer, capping 15 years of what may well go down in business history books as one of the most successful CEO tenures ever.\n <\/p>\n

\n From the start, Cook got a lot of criticism for not being Steve Jobs 2.0. He was the \u201coperations guy,\u201d not the creative visionary. But the numbers don\u2019t lie: Apple\u2019s profit has more than quadrupled under Cook; it became the first ever trillion-dollar company in 2018, and later became one of just a few to hit the $4…<\/p>\n

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