{"id":17170,"date":"2025-08-08T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/?p=17170"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:56:08","slug":"apple-ceo-tim-cook-says-he-wants-to-buy-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-says-he-wants-to-buy-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple CEO Tim Cook Says He Wants to Buy Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

Last week, on Apple’s earnings call<\/a>, CEO Tim Cook said he was looking to acquire companies.<\/p>\n

“We’re very open to [mergers and acquisitions],” Cook said at the time<\/a>. “We basically ask ourselves whether a company can help us accelerate a roadmap. If they do, then we’re interested.”<\/p>\n

Related:<\/b> She Was CEO of OpenAI for 2 Days. Now Her Secretive AI Startup Has Raised $12 Billion.<\/a><\/p>\n

Cook noted<\/a> that of the seven or so companies that Apple had acquired so far in 2025, several were not AI-focused and came from “all walks of life.” He also said the company was making deals fast \u2014 every few weeks.<\/p>\n

\"\"Apple CEO Tim Cook BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP | Getty Images<\/sup><\/p>\n

What is Apple looking for in a startup?<\/h2>\n

“We are not stuck on a certain size company,” Cook said.<\/p>\n

Apple has about $133 billion of cash, so price isn’t the issue. Rather, the question would be how a startup can fit into the Apple ecosystem with consumer products.<\/p>\n

Business Insider<\/i> notes that Apple’s largest acquisition of all time was Beats Electronics in 2014 for $3 billion.<\/p>\n

The outlet asked several experts<\/a> in the field which companies Apple should consider buying, and many big names were thrown into the ring \u2014 including Perplexity<\/a>, the popular AI-powered search engine.<\/p>\n

Related: <\/b>A Newly Acquired Startup Just Offered Its 200-Person Team a Choice \u2014 Work Weekends or Take a Buyout<\/a><\/p>\n

Another notable suggestion was Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati<\/a>. The company has raised $12 billion so far, though it has yet to launch any products. In July, Murati posted on X<\/a> that the company would be sharing its first product “in the next couple of months.”<\/p>\n

Still, Perplexity<\/a> and Thinking Machines Lab could be too pricey (both could end up costing somewhere close to $20 billion, BI<\/i> estimates, if they were even for sale at all), so smaller companies definitely have a shot.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s time to give your pitch deck<\/a> a refresh.<\/p>\n

Join top CEOs, founders, and operators at the<\/i> <\/i>Level Up conference<\/i><\/a> to unlock strategies for scaling your business, boosting revenue, and building sustainable success.<\/i><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, on Apple’s earnings call, CEO Tim Cook said he was looking to acquire companies. “We’re very open to [mergers and acquisitions],” Cook said at the time. “We basically ask ourselves whether a company can help us accelerate a roadmap. If they do, then we’re interested.” Related: She Was CEO of OpenAI for 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.entrepreneur.com\/content\/3x2\/2000\/1754682205-Apple-CEO-tim-cook-2228112912.jpg?format=pjeg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17172,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17170\/revisions\/17172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}