Twitter, Google, Facebook, Oracle and Apple Business Leaders to Dine with President Obama Tonight
EmailABC News' Sunlen Miller and Jake Tapper report:
The leaders of Twitter, Google, Facebook, Oracle, and Apple are among the twelve attendees at tonight's closed-door dinner meeting President Obama will have tonight in San Francisco.
The White House announced this afternoon the names of the business leaders in technology and innovation the president will speak to tonight at a private residence:
•John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
•Carol Bartz, President and CEO, Yahoo!
•John Chambers, CEO and Chairman, Cisco Systems
•Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
•Larry Ellison, Co-Founder and CEO, Oracle
•Reed Hastings, CEO, NetFlix
•John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
•Steve Jobs, Chairman and CEO, Apple
•Art Levinson, Chairman and former CEO, Genentech
•Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Google
•Steve Westly, Managing Partner and Founder, The Westly Group
•Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, President, and CEO, Facebook
White House press secretary Jay Carney described the participants as those who have been a “huge contributor” to the economic growth “in the last several decades” with their business leadership.
“It is a remarkable demonstration of the American capacity for creativity and innovation, leadership, and a model really for that kind of economic activity that we want to see in other cutting-edge industries in the United States where jobs can be created in America and kept in America. And that's what he wants to talk about."
A White House official said the president and the business leaders will discuss innovation, research and development, education and clean energy.
-Sunlen Miller and Jake Tapper
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So…are we going to be informed of the contents of the meeting? Or can we assume that it is in fact either A) a donor function or B) discussion on the “kill switch”….or both.
either way…he should be in DC “slashing” the budget. We are losing our patience with this bumble.
Posted by: mjishernameo | February 17, 2011, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm
Why is that there is not a single business leader from the clean energy sector (GE? OPOWER? Bloom Energy?) despite the fact that it is on the agenda along with innovation, research and development, education ?
Is the push towards clean energy jobs a fading hope ?
Posted by: jSescaCerts | February 17, 2011, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
Scary stuff….let me venture some guesses:
1) internet “kill switch”
2) surveillance of political opponents
3) data-mining both for “security” and for PPP (public-private partnerships) like the NSA, amongst others, outsourcing certain things to private companies. And for political fundraising
4) how to defeat Wikileaks, Cryptome, file-sharing, and other democratic and relatively free ways people are sharing/obtaining information.
5) “how much you gonna give me/what part of the spectrum or infrastructure do you want in return”?
Posted by: Ed | February 17, 2011, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm
How much is this costing the taxpayer?
How is it expected to benefit those of us who are paying for it?
Posted by: MayBee | February 17, 2011, 6:16 pm 6:16 pm