--- description: The minimum bid for a charity auction offering lunch with Apple CEO Tim Cook currently sits at $135,000. title: Here's How Much It Would Cost to Have Lunch With Apple CEO Tim Cook image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfcbf56cdbd15309e/69887f622dce01a3f69e7fc1/apple-ceo-tim-cook.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's How Much It Would Cost to Have Lunch With Apple CEO Tim Cook  by [Lisa Eadicicco](/author/lisa-eadicicco/)  ## Lisa Eadicicco Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 26, 2016 7:08 PM CUT  Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, visits an Apple store where third grade children from PS 57 James Weldon Johnson Leadership Academy are learning how to code through Apple's "Hour of Code" workshop program on December 9, 2015 in New York City. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, visits an Apple store where third grade children from PS 57 James Weldon Johnson Leadership Academy are learning how to code through Apple's "Hour of Code" workshop program on December 9, 2015 in New York City.Andrew Burton—Getty Images  by [Lisa Eadicicco](/author/lisa-eadicicco/)  ## Lisa Eadicicco Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 26, 2016 7:08 PM CUT Dining with the CEO of one of the world’s most valuable technology companies isn’t cheap. Apple CEO Tim Cook is auctioning off an hour of his time through online charity platform [Charitybuzz](https://www.charitybuzz.com/catalog%5Fitems/enjoy-lunch-with-ceo-tim-cook-at-apple-hq-in-cupertino-993407 "undefined"), with the current minimum bid calling for $135,000\. That’s after bids opened at $10,000 on April 21, having since climbed to $130,000\. Funds from the auction will support the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization. The winner of the auction gets to have lunch with Cook on Apple’s campus in Cupertino, Calif. and will also receive two VIP passes to an Apple keynote event. This is the fourth consecutive year Cook has offered to have lunch with a charity auction winner, according to [Vanity Fair](http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/04/apple-tim-cook-charity-lunch-auction "undefined"). In 2013, Cook auctioned off a coffee date to a bidder who paid $610,000, as [MarketWatch](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/lunch-with-tim-cook-is-much-more-affordable-than-it-used-to-be-2016-04-26 "undefined") notes. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4308211/lunch-with-tim-cook-auction-2016/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4308211/lunch-with-tim-cook-auction-2016/"},"headline":"Here's How Much It Would Cost to Have Lunch With Apple CEO Tim Cook","datePublished":"2016-04-26T19:08:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:49:54.084Z","description":"Lunch with Cook and two VIP passes to an Apple keynote event will cost at least $135,000 for new bidders","url":"https://time.com/4308211/lunch-with-tim-cook-auction-2016/","keywords":["Tech","Apple","Tim cook"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfcbf56cdbd15309e/69887f622dce01a3f69e7fc1/apple-ceo-tim-cook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Eadicicco","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-eadicicco/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfcbf56cdbd15309e/69887f622dce01a3f69e7fc1/apple-ceo-tim-cook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Apple CEO Tim Cook Stops By Hour Of Code Workshop Event Within Apple Store","caption":"Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, visits an Apple store where third grade children from PS 57 James Weldon Johnson Leadership Academy are learning how to code through Apple's \"Hour of Code\" workshop program on December 9, 2015 in New York City.","creditText":"Andrew Burton—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4308211/lunch-with-tim-cook-auction-2016/","name":"Here's How Much It Would Cost to Have Lunch With Apple CEO Tim Cook"}}]}] ```