President-elect Donald Trump told the nation Apple, under CEO Tim Cook, may soon be making an investment in the U.S.A backing his promise to put America first.

Plus, his early experience with hard work clearly paid off: After climbing the ranks at IBM for 12 years, Steve Jobs invited him to join Apple in 1998—and the rest is history. Now, he’s one of the highest-paid CEOs in America. Last year, Cook took home $74.6 million.

Apple CEO Tim Cook will join other big tech executives at the inauguration as they seek to avoid being targeted by incoming regulation and tariffs.

Apple CEO Tim Cook donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Now, Bloomberg reports that

Apple CEO Tim Cook took home $74.6 million last year. But he started out in the world of work with a paper route and then a humble $1.10-an-hour job. It’s hard to recall a time before Tim Cook worked at Apple—after all he joined the company in 1998,