Hillary Clinton considered Tim Cook and Bill Gates for vice-president
Hillary Clinton supposedly considered placing Tim Cook and Bill Gates on a list of potential running mates for her 2016 bid. The tech billionaires' names were found in a leaked email which apparently originated from Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta.
In a message dated 17 March 2016 published by Wikileaks, Podesta names Cook and Gates among a "first cut" of potential candidates for the job alongside Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz and Coca-Cola’s Muhtar Kent.
Silicon Valley has proven fertile ground for Clinton in her bid to raise campaign funds with several prominent figures including Tim Cook himself, holding fundraising dinners for Clinton.
In the end however their political inexperience seems to have counted against them with Clinton ultimately choosing veteran attorney Tim Kaine as her vice-presidential nominee.
Wikileaks claims to have obtained thousands of Podesta’s emails and pledged to drip feed more through to the US election on 8 November.