Lunch with Tim Cook at the new Apple Park headquarters put up for auction

04 May 2017, 17:50 | Technologies
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Apple CEO Tim Cook posted an online auction with him at lunch at the new Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, California, to raise funds for the Robert F Center for Human Rights. Kennedy. You can place a bet on CharityBuzz Charity Auction site.

Meeting with Tim Cook will take place in the new Apple Park campus in Cupertino (California). The conversation at lunch will last an hour. The winner who offered the largest amount for a meeting with the CEO will also receive an additional ticket. The price includes meals for two persons. Transportation costs and accommodation, according to the terms of the auction, will have to pay on your own.

This event is held for the fifth time. Last year, for the opportunity to drink a cup of coffee with the head of Apple paid $ 515,000. In 2015, for a meeting with the head of the most expensive corporation in the world, $ 200,000 was given, in 2014 - $ 330,000. The record was put in 2013: an unknown person paid $ 610,000 for a meeting with Cook. The funds went to the Center for Justice and Human Rights.

The collection from the current auction will go there to build a "just and peaceful world". To this end, the organization works with leaders of the human rights movement, conducts lectures on social justice and corporate responsibility.



The sale of lunches and dinners with a hammer is a fashionable and prestigious form of philanthropy in the States. A pioneer in the way of "coffee charity" was the billionaire Warren Buffett, who in 2012 brought $ 3.46 million to the Protestant Glide Fund. The businessman prefers to meet with the winners of auctions in the steakhouse.

Who will win the battle for a meeting with the head of Apple this year, can only guess. But the CEO promises to invite the winner to Apple Park and spend at least an hour of his time, which in itself is not cheap.

Based on materials: charitybuzz.com



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