apple's board of directors applauded cook's statement, a sign of the confidence they have in cook as chief executive. others see the business implications of the ceo ofhe a fortune 500 company openly declaring his sexual orientat n orientation. >> singapore, two days ago, reiterated they would not take away their anti-gay law, so now tim cook is openly, visibly out. >> it is an open question how the rest of the world reacts to cook's op-ed. still, whatever the reaction, this was an historic day when the ceo of the world's most valuable company said publicly and proudly that he is a gay man. so why make such a statement now? cook says that he is looking to make a difference. if hearing that the ceo of apple is gay helps people struggling to come to terms with who they are then it is worth the tradeoff he says with his own privacy. cook's op-ed was not a total surprise, though, in fact, just this week cook delivered a speech in which he called on his native state of alabama to do more when it comes to gay rights. >> as a state, we took too long to take steps toward equality. and once w

people like tim cooke coming out. mean the advances that the gay rights movement has seen have largely been based upon the fact that people have become willing to be open and honest about their sexual orientation. and when people come out, you realize it's your neighborhood, your doctor, your son, that gays and lesbians are everywhere. they are just like regular people. and once you know someone firsthand it's hard to discriminate, and the resistance falls apart. and that's why the movements have seen have really advanced the cause. >> conservatives would say that's why you ruin a culture. >> that's right. i noticed that ted cruz said today he still likes his iphone. >> to tim cooke's credit he has been at the front of human rights issues. but does he now have to be all about gay rights and its movement? >> this frees tim cooke to not have to worry about talking about this all the time. as part of its dna, apple has been supportive of equality, but for a long time, because tim cooke was semiopenly gay, there was the q

tim cook, joe brown still with "wired." paul kedrosky is with us.hen it comes to apple pay, joe, how revolutionary do you think it is? >> it is not the most industry-changing technology. it is like a credit card but works with your phone. notle have said it does have much creativity, but you're going to get people paying in an new way so you have to be conservative because you are talking about money here. i think it is actually good to be conservative. i am a little more lashawn it. >> we will be speaking with some actually yout are eat -- using apple pay. i spoke with mark andreessen about it yesterday. he had a similar feeling, that this is not as revolutionary as some people think it is. is revolutionary but it is consistent with existing payment systems. sot is surprising is that many things do not change. you put in your credit card -- >> are you saying it is not that innovative? >> it is innovative, but it is consistent with the way it has been going. >> let's read between the lines -- , i mean, saying that it is innovative in the payments in

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we will continue to follow this meeting between tim cook and jack ma. tim cook also blasted his home state of alabama yesterday for slow progress on granting gay rights. what did his comments reveal about how the tech world treats the lgbt community. stay tuned for my interview with dip costs low -- with dick costolo coming up. ♪ >> this is "bloomberg west." criticizedim cook his home state of alabama for its track record on racial inequality and its inaction on granting gay rights. >> there is little, if anything, that matters more in our country than arm basic tenets of equality and human rights. i have long promised myself to never be silent in my beliefs in regards to these tenets. as a state, we took too long to take steps toward equality. and once we began our progress was too slow. too slow on equality for african-americans, to slow on interracial marriage which was , andlegalized 14 years ago still too slow on equality for the lgbt community. pointed out that employees can still be fired for their sexual orientation in alabama and expressed hope

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the most important he did say to me, to tim cook and many other people is that tim cook and the peopleuld not wake up every morning and say what would steve do, they would say what should apple do. apple has done quite well recently. i cannot wait for the watch. i think that the iphone -- >> but they are iterations -- >> that watch is new and is part of that hold their it above the digital revolution, take our technology, make it more and a mitts personal, let it touch our wrist as opposed to machines that will think for us off in a different room. that intimate connection, steve had a thing for. so did most of the most great innovators, --'s the great innovators, sergey brin and others. >> walter isaacson, the sense of really treasuring the youth and putting all the emphasis on getting things done in the 20's and 30's, where are the 50-year-old and 60-year-olds in silicon valley? >> that is a good question. being an innovator, you have to be rebellious, you have to question authority. i think you do that a little bit better when you're in your 20's and 30's. >> do you have to focus ex

is tim cook doing the right thing for apple?ld you steer the company in the right direction if he were around? >> i cannot channel what steve would say. the most he did say was that tim cook and the people at apple should not wake up every morning and say, what would steve do? they should say, what would apple do? i cannot wait for the watch. all iterations. >> it is part of that narrative of the digital revolution, to take the technology, make it arsenal, as opposed to creating machines that are going to think it personal, as opposed to creating machines that are going to think for us. i think you are seeing apple move ahead on something like that. ask you wrote that book, the innovators. you talked to steve jobs. and is treasuring the youth putting the emphasis on getting things done in the 20's and 30's. where are the 50-year-olds and 60-year-olds in silicon valley? what do they do? >> i think you have to question authority. that better when you are in your 20's or 30's. >> do you have to focus exclusively on what you're doin

i think that is what tim cook tried to do.et's start a dialogue. >> there have been reports the chinese government may be behind this man in the middle attack. he has got to be angry. what can he tell the vice premier that may make cam embrace the -- make him embraced the attitude? >> it is interesting. it tends to blend together at times. i think tim cook is saying, i want more transparency. let's open up that dialogue. that's where it starts. he has got to be really concerned with what is behind that. if you don't start the dialogue the distance increases. then you have a real problem, and you end up where facebook is on. >> we will get that in a second. tim cook says he thinks china will be the biggest market. are they on track? is this a setback? >> it is potentially a setback, which is why tim cook wants to get on it. i don't think you're going to see anything associated with it. if you look at overall growth for china in general. from a target standpoint, they got to go after it. >> let's talk about facebook for a moment

just like cooking.ove cooking as well. >> legally, there might be something wrong with it. but morally, do you think is there anything wrong with essentially breaking into information base? >> yes. >> i'm not doing anything. i'm going to go in, look around, see how things work and i'll leave without disturbing anything. would most hackers say that's okay? >> yes. >> in the service of knowledge? that's okay? >> okay for most the hackers in our communities. i was lucky. i got into a very big hacker community here in shanghai and met a lot of great mentors. >> you started in business at 21. >> in factory. >> quite an accomplishment. >> i didn't go to college. >> you didn't go to college? >> i didn't go to the college. >> why not? >> most of the professors are way behind the development speed of the communities. >> why? your country is so advanced in so many other ways. why in this area? >> the network problem here in china, we have gfw, the great firewall, and it blocked a lot of important information webs

in the community, it was known tim cook is gay. that decision now to let everybody know and plant a flag in the ground. what does it mean? >> this is the first time that a ceo with this kind of profile has not only said, yes, i'm gay, but has said here is what i think about that and what it means within the context of not just of america, but of business. here is why i think it's important to embrace individuality, to embrace diversity within business. we've seen him at state of the union, tweet about social justice issues. he marched in the gay pride parade in san francisco this year. people knew what was going on. this starts a different kind of conversation, lots of different kinds of conversations. my immediate question is how will this play across this country and affect sales of apple. things haven't gone so well for michael sam at the nfl or jason collins of the nba team. things have gone very well at chik-a-filet which came out with homophobic statements. great day for the lgbt community but what about shareholders? >> bott

cook began his career at ibm.eve jobs offered him a job at apple. >> there's sort of a courage that it took to do something like this, being the first ceo of a fortune 1000 company to come out. >> cook's sexual orientation was an open secret in the world. >> i think tim cook is open that he's gay at the head of apple, isn't he? >> oh, dear. was that an error? >> i don't know brown was outed in 2007, and soon resigned as ceo of oil giant bp. >> ceos are -- have been certainly in history, very wo y worried about whether coming out will lose them customers, suppliers, government relations, investors, and will they be taken seriously by all and everybody. >> this summer cook led thousands of apple employees at san francisco's gay pride parade, even tweeting out a selfie. >> it's impossible to know why he made the announcement now. you have to ask him. but whenever anyone makes a decision like this, it's got to be very welcomed. indeed. >> earlier this week at a little noticed event at his home state of alabama, tim co

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cook in your house food.els like restaurant food. you want people to kick it up. >> it is about technique, following throughy will follow through, i am going to repel off a building on friday. >> okay. >> it was quincy verse team jen verse quincy. >> how much have you raised. >> about $11,000. >> how much has quincy raised. >> $13. >> so continue to give to me, okay, because quincy, he doesn't deserve your money. seriously it is all for the kids, and we will do this live on television live 7:00 to 10:00 must see tv but again, do yourself a favor and give me more money because it all helps the kids in philadelphia a so go on over to the troops, outward bound, and you got dinner. a awesome. by the way mike, kerry, alex he did make this in about six minutes. so, for tv. >> for tv. >> yes. >> yeah. >> friday, she's going to repel down a 31 story building in philadelphia. >> i can't imagine. >> it makes me so nervous. >> yes. >> please get on team q, $13. >> he is so scared. >> 9:51. you might in the think a nun,

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thank you, dane cook. ] so this special, this is your first special in four years. >> yes. >> seth: you did this yourself. you directed it, you put your own money into it. >> right. >> seth: and when you do comedy specials, i guess it's normal to do two nights when you shoot them? >> yeah, because you want to have something to normally cut from. primarily you want like just one great show and a couple little fragments maybe from the other nights, maybe some fillers. some buttons, tags, extra little things. and so i did the friday night show. and by the way, i put my own money in this. this is the first thing that i did completely on my own, no, you know, corporate assistance. so, you know, it was scary. and then friday night, everything that could have possibly gone wrong when you're recording -- like, every technical issue. i had drunk people who came in late who were like, "what's going on in here?" [ laughter ] it was like -- and i'm in my head going, like, "this is just, this is the worst." i was expec

many people i talked to believe that meier and cook have something in common. >> ceo tim cook established himself as a leader in the tech field. marissa meier, ceo of yahoo! and one of the very few women to run a fortune 500 company. meier is leading the way for women in tech. cook can now add inspiration to his resume. >> i think it is wonderful he is in a supportive environment even at the top of apple. he is able to, embrace who he is, truly as an individual, and help others get to that same point. >> in an essay, cook wrote for business week he officially announced himself as gay, saying while i never denied my sexuality. i haven't publicly acknowledged it either. until now. so let me be clear, i am proud to be gay. and i consider being gay among the greatest gifts has god given me. among those happy to hear of his announcement women in tech. >> what he did today is really coming out for, getting some hope to other people to actually you know, say it is okay being gay. >> myers showed the world it is okay to be a woman running a tech giant. >> everything, you know, in terms of how do

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and then you get tim cook. what's different between someone like you on television, all over the world, and a tim cook? >> what is different is in front of us. look the at this. >> yep. >> you've got your ipad. we've got the iwear. we've got the iphone. put all these things together, i was talking to some international journalists this morning, and i was saying, in your country, how aspirational is owning an apple product and the answer we know it's exceptionally aspirational. now you get someone like tim cook coming out admitting he's gay. that's an open secret in silicon valley but you cannot overstate the importance of this. and i've argued with some of our senior editors here at cnn, who basically said no big deal. i said you're absolutely wrong. this is a big deal because of what it sends. the message it sends. not just here in the united states, to the closeted child, to the closeted teenager in mississippi, or in the west coast or in the northwest, but around the world. >> so around the world is what's k

held the book up, said "cook" in stores now.helming for me. >> the first book introduced him to america and his most recent book "if you can see it you can be it" is a tool to help become successful. >> it's a book that i believe will define my legacy. >> you have tools in the book that help people get there. >> yes. many tools in the book. i realize the only difference between the have and have nots and folks that live in the suburbs and inner city is information, knowledge, and access. you know, i started to question folks how do you get access. how do you obtain information people have. that's what i set out to do. "see it be it" i have many great strategies and lessons and rules and recipes for success. one talks about sacrifice. no one becomes successful without sacrifice, meaning you work hard now to get yours later. the hustle is another chapter i write in the book. so many hustle their whole life. when you come out of poverty you''re trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents. when i look at at risk, socially challenged peo

cook has never hidden his sexuality but today he came out. our business and tech reporter scott budman joins from us the apple store in los gatos. why the announcement? was there something that prompted it? >> reporter: well, you know, we talked to some customers, we talked to some future engineers, raj. they say that tim cook's announcement was not a big surprise, but that it meant a lot to them. san jose state university, for example, where apple does a lot of its recruiting, has a group called ostem, science and engineering students who are gay and lesbian. they say tim cook, in addition to being someone to study as a successful ceo, is now an inspiration. >> it is really interesting. because there aren't really that many role models for lgbt people. having a role model is really news. >> reporter: we asked tech watchers if cook's news might affect apple sales in countries that are not as accepting as america. they say that's really not likely, saying people after all buy products, not executives. tim cook now becomes the only openly gay c

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cook mr. cooper has.ly in a time when you did not talk about this at all. >> society had much dimmer views on that situation. personally we think it is great that somebody was to articulate their orientation, they can, and if they don't, that is great, too. it is great to see society evolved that way. it is shocking that an alabama -- huge, there is still division in the nation. >> this is after the supreme court punted and decided not to take up gay marriage, leaving it s --he state >> the big issues not people like tim cook or alabama area it is places like brazil. >> maybe russia. ?> russia much more to come more draconian --russia much more draconian. >> trevor burgess made some headlines and you wonder how others in the business community will respond to mr. cook's announcement als. as josh mentioned, the international visibility has real ramifications. >> trevor burgess was the first openly gay ceo of a publicly traded bank. >> and it is right over to sports as well to > this may sparked a rush for