Daniel Cooperman was on a business trip in China in August 2007 when his boss’s best friend called him with a question. The friend was Steve Jobs, whose company had cycled through two top GCs and was now facing a vacuum atop Apple Inc.’s law department. “Look, obviously I’m not doing this right,” Cooperman recalls Jobs saying. “I need to know, what does it take?”
At the time Cooperman was the general counsel at Oracle Corporation. When he returned to California, he met with Jobs at the chief executive’s Palo Alto home one Saturday afternoon to explain how to build an in-house legal department. By day’s end, Jobs offered Cooperman the job at Apple. When Cooperman accepted, it was with the blessing of Oracle’s CEO, Larry Ellison (at whose wedding Jobs was best man).
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