Lunch With Apple CEO Tim Cook Will Cost You Big Money

Interested in breaking bread with Tim Cook? You better have some seriously deep pockets.

For a third consecutive year, the Apple CEO is hitting the Charitybuzz auction block to raise funds for RFK Human Rights, an international human rights organization founded by Robert Kennedy's family and friends. The winning bidder will get to spend some one-on-one time with the CEO over lunch at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino. Plus, as a new addition this year, the highest bidder will also have the opportunity to be Cook's personal guest at an Apple Keynote event.

But lunch with Cook will not come cheap. The auction launched Wednesday morning at 9 a.m. with a starting bid of $10,000, and bids are already up to $165,000. If history is any indication, it could go much higher; the auction closes on May 6 at 3:04 p.m. ET.

Join me for lunch (and a keynote!) and help a great cause. @RFKHumanRights is working toward a more just world. https://t.co/QxaKne4itb

— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) April 15, 2015

Last year, one eager Apple fan ponied up $330,000 for the one-hour sit-down with Cook. His first auction in 2013 raised $610,000 for RFK Human Rights, and remains one of the highest-grossing Charitybuzz auctions ever.

Meanwhile, Cook has been developing quite a reputation for his philanthropic efforts. Word has it that the CEO is planning to give away his estimated $785 million fortune to charity — but only after paying for his 10-year-old nephew's college education.

And besides giving away his fortune, there's another thing Tim Cook was willing to donate — his own liver. The new biography Becoming Steve Jobs claims that Cook offered an ailing Jobs a "portion of his own liver."