{"id":97973,"date":"2021-08-28T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=97973"},"modified":"2021-08-28T07:00:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T12:00:47","slug":"apple-ceo-brings-home-750-million-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/08\/28\/apple-ceo-brings-home-750-million-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple CEO Brings Home $750 Million Bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__content\">\n<div class=\"article__body\">\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97974 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tim-Cook-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tim-Cook-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tim-Cook-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tim-Cook.jpg 600w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tim-Cook-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tim-Cook-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tim-Cook-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 It pays to be the leader of Apple.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s CEO, Tim Cook, was recently given a bonus of $750 million worth of Apple stock, marking his 10th anniversary as CEO.<\/p>\n<p>The bonus was revealed Thursday in a regulatory filing.<\/p>\n<p>He promptly cashed out the 5 million shares, which were given based on both performance and time with the company.<\/p>\n<p>The bonus plan was put in place after Cook had become CEO in 2011, shortly before the death of company co-founder Steve Jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Since Cook took over the company, Apple&#8217;s value has reached an estimated $2.4 trillion, and its share price has risen 1,200%, according to BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Cook, who is estimated to be worth $1.4 billion, still owns 3.2 million shares of the company.<\/p>\n<p>The regulatory findings also show Cook donated 70,000 shares, worth $10 million, to charity.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Apple in 1998, he worked for IBM and Compaq.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 It pays to be the leader of Apple. The company&#8217;s CEO, Tim Cook, was recently given a bonus of $750 million worth of Apple stock, marking his 10th anniversary as CEO. The bonus was revealed Thursday in a regulatory filing. He promptly cashed out the 5 million shares, which were given based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recposts"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97976,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97973\/revisions\/97976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}