Tim Cook tweets Abraham Lincoln, leaves Apple loyalists in a dilemma

Major decision: Joining LA Galaxy

In March this year, the Swedish footballer saw his contract with Manchester United cancelled after having made just seven appearances given his ligament injury. However less than 24 hours after this news broke, the footballer, who calls himself ‘Indiana Jones’ announced that he was joining LA Galaxy. While he was making a cool $27 million a year with Manchester United, Ibrahimovic salary at Galaxy is a modest $1.4 million. (Text: AFP)

Major decision: Deal Berkshire Hathaway deal

The Paytm founder recently landed a big fish in the form of investment worth approx. $300 million from the Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway. In an interview recently, Sharma revealed that all it took for the deal to finalise was one meeting and two phone calls. The meeting, which lasted for all of two hours (120 minutes), took place on Valentine’s Day. “One meeting and two phone calls later, the deal was done,” Sharma said.

Major decision: Accepting the Facebook COO job

In an interview last year, Sandberg revealed that before she left Google to join Facebook, she spent a lot of time contemplating whether to make the switch. Sandberg said that she met Zuckerberg at a Christmas party in 2007, after which they became friends and thought about working together. However, it took both three months — which calculates to a painstaking 1,31,400 minutes — to come to a decision about it. Sandberg told Zuckerberg that if she was going to work for him, they would need to give each other candid feedback and check in with each other first thing Monday morning and last thing Friday every week. They have been working together for nine years now. (Text: AFP)

Major decision: Taking up the Infosys top job

Before Parekh took up the corner office at Infosys, he was undergoing several rounds of discussions with different big companies, including IBM, reports suggested. According to the reports, it took around eight months of back and forth and much deliberation before Parekh agreed to sign the dotted line at Infosys.

Major decision: Signing with Minnesota Vikings

Cousins became NFL’s highest paid player ever when he signed an $84 million guaranteed contract with the Minnesota Vikings in March 2018.

Cousins made this life-changing decision in less than five hours (300 minutes) despite his old team the New York Jets making him an offer of $ 90 million to retain him. Commenting on his decision to settle for less money, Cousins said that it wasn’t money that mattered but the team structure and leadership. (Text: AFP)