Bezos, Sandberg, Musk Said to Be Attending Trump Tech Summit
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk will be among those attending President-elect Donald Trump’s gathering of technology industry leaders Wednesday in New York, people familiar with the matter said.
An invitation to the meeting went out last week from members of Mr. Trump’s transition team, including venture capitalist Peter Thiel. Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz, Cisco Systems’ Chuck Robbins and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg plan to attend. Alphabet’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt will be there too, as will Apple’s Tim Cook, according to people familiar with the matter. IBM CEO Ginni Rometty — who is on Trump’s advisory panel of business leaders — will also attend, said a person familiar with her plans.
While support for Trump was thin among technology executives during the presidential campaign, Mr. Bezos and Mr. Trump clashed the most publicly. The Amazon founder mockingly tweeted that he would send the Republican candidate to space on one of his rockets, and Mr. Trump accused Mr. Bezos of purchasing the Washington Post to gain political influence in the nation’s capital to help his growing e-commerce empire.
