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Bezos diplomatic after Trump meeting

by on15 December 2016


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Donald “Prince of Orange” Trump met up with Silicon Valley’s big names yesterday to repair the damage of the election campaign.

For those who came in late, during the campaign, Silicon Valley backed Hillary Clinton while Trump scored points with American voters by suggesting that Big Tech should be forced to make its goods in the US with US workers.

The meeting, which lasted an hour, included Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, Palantir CEO Alex Karp, and Alphabet’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, CEO.

After the meeting, Bezos had some carefully chosen words to describe President-elect Donald Trump’s tech summit.

He said that he found the meeting with the President-elect, his transition team, and tech leaders to be “very productive.”

“I shared the view that the administration should make innovation one of its key pillars, which would create a huge number of jobs across the whole country, in all sectors, not just tech—agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing—everywhere.”

Bezos’ amicable words are notable, given Trump and Bezos had some rather harsh words when Trump blacklisted the Washington Post during the election campaign. Trump claimed that Bezos bought the Post as a tax dodge.

Cook and Page participated in a discussion back in May at the American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum around how to stop Trump’s nomination.

 

Last modified on 15 December 2016
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