When Steve Jobs Met Tim Cook - Digits - WSJ.com

When Steve Jobs Met Tim Cook - Digits - WSJ.com: "For the next six months , Steve Jobs has asked Tim Cook run Apple while Jobs convalesces. For Cook, that must feel a little like getting the keys to dad’s Porsche. For Jobs, it suggests he’s confident Cook won’t drive the company into a ditch.

Rick Devine has a unique view of the relationship of the two Apple executives. Devine was present when Jobs and Cook met for the first time in 1998. At the time, Devine was an executive recruiter at the firm Heidrick & Struggles, which Jobs had hired to conduct searches for a new head of manufacturing operations and a new CEO (Jobs was “interim” CEO at the time; he later took the CEO job himself)."