You Can Have Lunch With Tim Cook at Apple — But It'll Cost You

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You Can Have Lunch With Tim Cook at Apple — But It'll Cost You
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Apple (http://mashable.com/category/Apple/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) CEO Tim Cook (http://mashable.com/category/Tim-Cook?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) is willing to have lunch with you and a friend at the company's Cuperti**, Calif., headquarters, but it might set you back a couple thousand dollars.

Cook is putting his time up (https://www.charitybuzz.com/TimCook) for an online auction as a part of the 8th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Center Spring Auction for Human Rights, in partnership with Charitybuzz.com (https://www.charitybuzz.com/TimCook). The highest bidder will get a one-hour sit-down lunch at Caffe Macs, the cafe at Apple's headquarters, to discuss anything.

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While startups and entrepreneurs will likely claw at the chance to have Cook's undivided attention, the opportunity may come at a high price. Last year, Cook auctioned off a 30-minute coffee date at the Apple campus that sold for $610,000 (http://mashable.com/2013/04/24/tim-cook-coffee/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) (an all-time high for the RFK Center); it was the first time ever he agreed to a celebrity auction. According to Charitybuzz, last year's coffee date ran over the scheduled time to about an hour, with a good bit of time spent in Cook's ******. This year, he's offering a full lunch meeting Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/24/tim-cook-lunch-charity/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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