Bangalore: An Indian techie wanted to have a chat with Tim Cook so much that he bid a whopping $580k for half an hour coffee date with Apple CEO, reports Times Of India.

Rakesh Kumar, alumni of Durgapur Regional Engineering College in West Bengal, stunned the auctioneers with his bidding on the last day of auction which ended on Tuesday.  However his dream of meeting Cook missed just by a whisker for an anonymous bidder who bid $610k, $30k more. On Tuesday, the winning bid came only several minutes before the auction closed at 4 pm ET.

Kumar, holds an Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering degree from REC Durgapur, now lives in US and is founder of a start-up Drbluetooth.com, which sells Bluetooth headsets, set up in Sunnyvale, California just nine months ago.

The auction has been running on the Charitybuzz website since April 24 to spend half an hour with Cook over a coffee. The bidding overshot the initial expectation of $50,000 to $160,000 by the end of the first day itself.

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