E470 - A Lesson From a Mentor I'll Never Forget

I first met Tim Cook in 2014.

I was just starting my career in finance and had signed up for a local gym that opened at 5:00am. I started arriving at 4:45am so I could get to the office by 6:30.

Each morning, there was a small handful of others who would congregate outside the doors at that time. Tim happened to be one of the people in that group.

For the first six months, I talked to him almost every day and had exactly zero idea who he was.

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