Some of technology’s most prominent leaders and CEOs have made the pilgrimage from the Tesla-lined streets of Silicon Valley to the slightly more civilized New York City to bow at the feet of the very smart and good looking Supreme Leader-elect of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-and-peter-thiel-attempt-handshake-high-fiv-1790108515
Some highlights include Tesla and SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk, Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella. This whole meeting could be pretty awkward, especially considering how much Trump shit talked the tech industry in general during the campaign.
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, was the first big name to arrive, after Oracle CEO Safra Catz was spotted earlier today in the building.
JUST IN: Amazon CEO & Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos arrives at Trump Tower for tech summit with the President-elect. pic.twitter.com/t7Ef31RTYT
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) December 14, 2016
Update 1:18 PM ET: Palantir CEO Alex Karp has arrived at Trump Tower. Palantir, a secretive data analytics startup worth billions, just won a key battle against the U.S. Army.
https://twitter.com/embed/status/809099818891091968
Update 1:33 PM ET: Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has completed his journey to Trump Tower.
Intel CEO Krzanich at Trump Towers pic.twitter.com/m63FrjClco
— Scott Austin (@ScottMAustin) December 14, 2016
Update 1:46 PM ET: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is here. IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has also arrived.
https://twitter.com/embed/status/809107390754852868
JUST IN: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty arrives to Trump tech summit. pic.twitter.com/NtceXEPpUd
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) December 14, 2016
Update 1:53 PM ET: Larry Page, CEO of Alphabet (Google), and Eric Schmidt, Executitives Chairman of Alphabet, have arrived to pay their respects to our dear leader.
Update 2:04 PM ET: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is here!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/embed/status/809111495611207680
Update 2:21PM ET:
Reporters were briefly allowed inside the meeting.
Thing Trump actually just said at the tech titans meeting: “We have no formal chain of command around here"
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) December 14, 2016
Trump’s kids at the meeting with all the tech CEOs, natch.
— Jay Yarow (@jyarow) December 14, 2016
Happening Now: President-elect @realDonaldTrump meets with tech executives. pic.twitter.com/Aj3AQ4sK6l
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 14, 2016
Then Trump and Peter Thiel tried out doing the ‘ole handshake/high five that can be really tricky to pull off.
https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-and-peter-thiel-attempt-handshake-high-fiv-1790108515
