Steve Jobs rejected an offer of a liver transplant from Tim Cook in 2009, a new biography of the late Apple co-founder reveals.
Despite becoming increasingly ill from cancer, Jobs angrily turned down the proposal by the man who would go on to run Apple after he died.
“He cut me off at the legs, almost before the words were out of my mouth,” said Cook.
“‘No,’ [Jobs] said. ‘I’ll never let you do that. I’ll never do that’.”
The revelation is made in Becoming Steve Jobs, by Fast Company executive editor Rick Tetzeli and co-author Brent Schlender, published later this month.
The incident, which underlines the closeness of the relationship between the two men, showed how selfless Jobs was, according to Cook.
“It was: ‘No, I’m not doing that!’ He kind of popped up in bed and said that. And this was at a time when things were just terrible.
Steve only yelled at me four or five times during the 13 years I knew him, and this was one of them,” Cook said.
