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Tim Cook, Larry Page, Sheryl Sandberg — and maybe even Jeff Bezos — are going to Trump’s tech summit next week
The list of those not invited or invited but not going — the equivalent of the “I’m washing my hair” excuse, I guess — is even more interesting, including those from pretty much all of its most innovative companies. Some just got invites late this week, by the way, which shows how rolling the invites might have been.
Thus, no on Uber CEO Travis Kalanick (invited, but out of country), no on Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky (invited and a Thiel investment, but out of country), no on Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, no on Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, no on Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield and no on Dropbox CEO Drew Houston.
In other words, most of the cool kids are staying West. “I think my invite got lost in the mail,” joked one. “Of course, this kind of thing will never happen again as of January.”
And prominent venture capitalists and entrepreneurs like Marc Andreessen, Max Levchin and Reid Hoffman are also not attending. Let that sink in — both Levchin and Hoffman worked with Thiel at PayPal and are close to him. Hoffman has been a big critic of Trump and continues to be.
Sources also said Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, another prominent and vocal Trump detractor, is also not going. During the campaign, the Republican stalwart — one of the few in Silicon Valley — called Trump a “dishonest demagogue” and compared him to Hilter and Mussolini. Let’s be fair, that’s pretty hard to walk back.
- “I plan to tell the President-elect that we are with him and will help in any way we can,” said Catzomg
- “Look, this is obviously a circus,” said some random clown who was walking by collecting everyone's trash.omg
- why in the world would you start interviewing some random dude walking around? probably the janitor.omg
- ha, omg - this meeting hasn't taken place yet so the quote was by someone "close to the situation" not the future meeting, lol!whatthefunk
- I know the meet hasn't happened. It's that unknown and mysterious undercover clown doing reconnaissance work that looks highly suspicious.omg
- business staying away from gov. sounds positivedeathboy