So, if you have an hour free later this year - and you have a few hundred thousand dollars burning a hole in your wallet - you might want to jot down a lunch date with Apple CEO Tim Cook in your daily planner.
And make sure to bring your favorite Apple mobile device along, you may want to take plenty of selfies and take a few notes.
While we're guessing at the cost of this affair, last year Cook auctioned off a 30-minute coffee date on the Apple campus that went for a cool $610,000 so we're thinking this lunch isn't going to come on the cheap.
The head honcho at Apple is donating his time for an online auction as part of the annual Robert F. Kennedy Center Spring Auction for Human Rights in partnership with Charitybuzz.com. The highest bidder gets this on-hour, sit-down opp to chow down and chat away with Cook at a company café dubbed Caffe Macs at Apple's Cupertino, Ca. headquarters.
Cook joins a list of several celebs who have auctioned off their time on Charitybuzz.com including Today correspondent and former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, former tennis great John McEnroe as well as President Bill Clinton, Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey and the Dalai Lama.
With regard to dipping into the tech sector for the celebrity auctions this year, Charitybuzz.com explained the reasoning.
"Tech stars have become the new rock stars of the digital age," said Coppy Holzman, founder and CEO of Charitybuzz. "It's a sign of the times that nothing is in higher demand than access to industry titans like Tim Cook. In fact, the power meeting with Cook last year brought in more money for the RFK Center than experiences with some of Hollywood's A-list celebrities."
So get your bidding fingers and wallets ready as you can make your bid here. And for those who may think you can recklessly bid huge amounts of money you don't actually have, think again. Charitybuzz will authorize your credit card before you're off and running.
Lastly, seeing as Tim is a fairly busy dude these days, it's unlikely you'll be sitting down to dine in a couple of weeks. Apple warns it could take up to a year for the man to fit you in on his schedule.
