Lunch With Apple's Tim Cook Would Cost $100,000

By Kamal Nayan - 16 Apr '15 04:25AM
Close

If you ever thought of having lunch with Apple CEO Tim Cook, now is the time. However, a caveat is that you should be willing to dig deep into your pockets, and you also need to have pretty deep pockets.

For the third year in a row, Cook is offering his time in a benefit auction for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights, an international nonprofit. Winner of the auction will get to have lunch with Cook at Apple's Cupertino headquarters plus two VIP tickets to an Apple keynote speech.

In 2013, the first auction of Apple CEO brought in $610,000 for a 60-minute coffee date - the highest amount ever raised on charity auction site Charitybuzz. Last year he brought $310,000.

His 2013 auction "was the first time access (to Cook) was being granted, so it just skyrocketed," said Charitybuzz spokeswoman Kerilyn Bartley, according to SF Gate.

Cost of the lunch at Cupertino will be covered in the auction bid but the winner will have to pay for their own travel and accommodation expenses.The auction has already started and will end at 3:04 pm Eastern on May 6th, 2015.

 The starting bid picks up at $10,000, the auction's estimated value is set at $100,000.

Fun Stuff

Join the Conversation

The Next Read

Real Time Analytics