Trump Is Meeting With Tech CEOs, and It’s Gonna Be Awkward
Donald Trump may have just met with Kanye West, but the tech execs meeting with the president-elect today may outshine even Mr. Kim Kardashian in sheer collective star power. The awkwardness may also run just as thick.
The confirmed list of attendees include most of tech’s top leaders (which also reads like a who’s who of people who are almost certainly richer than Trump): Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Oracle co-chief executive Safra Catz, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, IBM CEO Ginni Rommety, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Alphabet (neé Google) CEO Larry Page and executive chairman Eric Schmidt, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, and Palantir CEO Alex Karp. (Karp co-founded the big data firm with Trump’s top Silicon Valley backer, venture capitalist Peter Thiel.)
The meeting is the first Trump has taken with a group of executives from a single industry—an industry with which he was constantly at odds throughout his campaign. During a photo op at the meeting’s outset, Trump sounded a harmonious note.
