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Cebu_4_2
14th December 2016, 05:56 PM
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/12/14/tech-execs-begin-gather-trump-tower/95338938/

Trump tells tech leaders 'There’s nobody like you in the world'

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Technology leaders' main expectation from the Trump administration is that the regulators will let businesses run on their own, said Eli Gelman, CEO of Amdocs. Video provided by TheStreet Newslook
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(Photo: Evan Vucci, AP)

NEW YORK — Ringed by tech's elite, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday promised to do "anything we can do" to help the industry he often baited during the presidential campaign.

"This is truly an amazing group of people," Trump said at Trump Tower to kick off a meeting with Silicon Valley's top leaders. "I want to add that I’m here to help you folks do well."

A dozen tech A-listers — Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty and Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, among them — sat down for the two-hour meeting with the president-elect to discuss jobs, immigration policy, China, cybersecurity and taxes.

Trump told the group that his administration is "going to be here for you. You’ll call my people, you’ll call me. We have no formal chain of command around here."

He suggested, and tech leaders agreed to, meeting quarterly, according to a person briefed on the meeting. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

They discussed repatriating foreign profits, reforming taxes and regulations so companies build more jobs in the U.S., building better infrastructure, and improving education, the person briefed on the meeting said.

Government procurement and protecting intellectual-property rights, major topics for several tech companies in attendance, also came up, according to the Trump transition team.

Cook and Musk were scheduled to meet privately with Trump later.

Notably absent, however, was Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who invented what possibly is Trump's favorite app. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did not attend, but Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg did.

Will Twitter get a Trump bump? Don't count on it
(http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/12/14/twitter-trump-bump/95398508/)
Trump wants the tech industry "to keep going with the incredible innovation," he said on live television. "There’s nobody like you in the world. There’s nobody like the people in this room."

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Trump was flanked by Vice President-elect Mike Pence and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, one of his few vocal supporters in Silicon Valley.

Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft declined comment on the meeting,
Bezos, however, struck a conciliatory tone. “I shared the view that the administration should make innovation one of its key pillars, which would create a huge number of jobs across the whole country, in all sectors, not just tech — agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing — everywhere," he said in a statement.

Wilbur Ross, Trump's choice for Commerce Secretary attended and said it was "a very good, constructive meeting" in which both sides "got to know each other better."

In a tweet, incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said the summit included “productive discussions about job creation & economic growth.”

The meeting, roughly one month before the billionaire real-estate tycoon is sworn in as 45th president, could offer an early litmus test on how Trump plans to bring jobs to the Rust Belt and other non-tech regions. The attendees represent more than 1.3 million U.S. jobs and a total market cap of $2.9 trillion, according to the Consumer Technology Association.

Last year, the consumer tech sector generated $3.5 trillion in economic output and accounted for more than 15 million people, or 8.4% of total U.S. employment, CTA says.

One area where Trump and tech agree: reforming the tax code. Trump says he plans to slash the corporate tax rate to 15% from 35%, which could prompt tech giants to repatriate money kept overseas. There could also be common ground over Trump's anti-regulatory policies, which might aid start-ups.

"We’re going to make it a lot easier for you to trade across borders," said Trump, who was joined by his sons Donald Jr. and Eric, daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Before the meeting, Rometty told USA TODAY she intended to lobby Trump on ways to better train American workers so they are qualified to fill "new collar" jobs at Big Blue.

In his year-long sprint to the presidency, Trump has traded barbs with the industry. While President Obama frequently visited Silicon Valley and hosted tech executives at the White House, Trump engaged in tweet-bashing Apple and Amazon, disparaging their off-shoring of jobs, stances on encryption and tax contributions.

IBM's Rometty to urge Trump to support worker retraining (http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/12/13/ibms-rometty-talk-new-collar-jobs-trump/95370718/)

Dozens of executives, meanwhile, signed an open letter opposing Trump's candidacy.

Nearly all represented large, traditional companies with the exception of Palantir Technologies, the private software and services company co-founded by Thiel. Thiel, Kushner and Priebus organized the gathering of tech executives Wednesday.

Earlier Wednesday, Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick were added to Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum, which had been noticeably absent of tech leaders.

Trump's tech summit to focus on jobs; Cook, Musk, Sandberg to go
(http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/12/11/trump-fills-out-his-tech-summit-attendee-list/95300462/)



Despite resistance to a tech summit from anti-Trump voices in Silicon Valley, tech's biggest names did not pass up a chance for a face-to-face with the incoming president.
“Trump is our president for the next four years, so the tech community needs to set aside its intellectual arrogance and move forward with him to maintain its preeminence as an industry,” says Vineet Jain, CEO of start-up Egnyte, an enterprise file-sharing and collaboration provider. “He’s a businessman; I don’t think he will do anything to jeopardize (the tech industry).”

vacuum
14th December 2016, 07:47 PM
Mike Pence must be questioning his reality every day.

He tried to become a representative in Indiana for the longest time, and never won. Then he did a radio show for a while and finally got into the House. Then somehow he became governor of Indiana, where he did ok but wasn't really liked that much because of some of the bills he signed.

Fast forward to 2016, Trump gave him a jet to fly around in, thousands of people cheering him at rallies, he's living in Trump tower with more gold around him than he's seen in his life, sitting in a room as the president elect's trusted right-hand man with a bunch of really powerful billionaires who run the tech industry and watching Trump work them over.

Some days Mike Pence must be asking himself what the hell is going on.

EE_
14th December 2016, 07:58 PM
Mike Pence must be questioning his reality every day.

He tried to become a representative in Indiana for the longest time, and never won. Then he did a radio show for a while and finally got into the House. Then somehow he became governor of Indiana, where he did ok but wasn't really liked that much because of some of the bills he signed.

Fast forward to 2016, Trump gave him a jet to fly around in, thousands of people cheering him at rallies, he's living in Trump tower with more gold around him than he's seen in his life, sitting in a room as the president elect's trusted right-hand man with a bunch of really powerful billionaires who run the tech industry and watching Trump work them over.

Some days Mike Pence must be asking himself what the hell is going on.

He's not on the farm anymore. He must feel like a little fish in a really big pond full of sharks.

JohnQPublic
14th December 2016, 10:51 PM
...
Some days Mike Pence must be asking himself what the hell is going on.


'We're not in Kansas Indiana anymore'

Neuro
15th December 2016, 12:09 AM
Had to look up wtf alphabet was. Essentially it is old Google:

https://abc.xyz

Twisted Titan
15th December 2016, 03:19 AM
Of all the people there

I would have paid top dollar to be a fly on the wall before jeff bezos walked in

That look must have been pure gold.




I wonder what was so important on zucks to do list that he couldnt come when summoned by the president?


Duly noted.

Ares
15th December 2016, 05:10 AM
Of all the people there

I would have paid top dollar to be a fly on the wall before jeff bezos walked in

That look must have been pure gold.




I wonder what was so important on zucks to do list that he couldnt come when summoned by the president?


Duly noted.

If you really want a laugh, read up on where Jack Dorsey (Twitter CEO) was. Hint: He wasn't invited.

Horn
15th December 2016, 06:33 AM
I guess its cordial n all, personally I dont like when government and industry sit together.

Is equal to the two wolves in the Franklin quote.

JohnQPublic
15th December 2016, 07:38 AM
Isn't facism basically when government and corporations/industry collude?

Twisted Titan
15th December 2016, 07:58 AM
Mousslini said it really should be called corporatisim because it was the merging of state and gubbermint.

Spectrism
15th December 2016, 08:42 AM
What Trump seems to be missing... or maybe he is doing correctly (secretly) is the notice to key technology manufacturers to get their secrets and machinery out of China ASAP. If I were in Trump's shows, I would have had meetings like this already with all the top technology leaders who are American with operations in foreign countries. When we go to war, all of that will be lost. Also, it is copied (stolen) by the Chinese.

Ares
15th December 2016, 08:47 AM
What Trump seems to be missing... or maybe he is doing correctly (secretly) is the notice to key technology manufacturers to get their secrets and machinery out of China ASAP. If I were in Trump's shows, I would have had meetings like this already with all the top technology leaders who are American with operations in foreign countries. When we go to war, all of that will be lost. Also, it is copied (stolen) by the Chinese.

That might be why after the pictures and opening statement was made that the press was ushered out of the room and the doors were closed.

China, with all their sabre rattling is not very happy right now. They know the U.S. is their golden goose and Trump is calling them out for their 3 decades worth of robbery.

crimethink
15th December 2016, 12:55 PM
What Trump seems to be missing... or maybe he is doing correctly (secretly) is the notice to key technology manufacturers to get their secrets and machinery out of China ASAP. If I were in Trump's shows, I would have had meetings like this already with all the top technology leaders who are American with operations in foreign countries. When we go to war, all of that will be lost. Also, it is copied (stolen) by the Chinese.

Unfortunately, Silicon Valley is built with Chinese and Indian parts.

Reversing that is essential, but a herculean task.

crimethink
15th December 2016, 12:57 PM
That might be why after the pictures and opening statement was made that the press was ushered out of the room and the doors were closed.

China, with all their sabre rattling is not very happy right now. They know the U.S. is their golden goose and Trump is calling them out for their 3 decades worth of robbery.

I just hope he follows through.

The Republic of China ("Taiwan") was robbed by both the Jewnited Nations and the United States, and should be returned to at least equal to the Red Chinese regime. Personally, the so-called "People's Republic" should be regarded as a criminal regime.

JohnQPublic
15th December 2016, 01:16 PM
Here's who sat where during Trump's big meeting with tech leaders (http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-meeting-photo-jeff-bezos-elon-musk-tim-cook-2016-12)



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Eric Trump
Brad Smith, Microsoft president and chief legal officer
Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO
Larry Page, Google founder and Alphabet CEO
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO
Mike Pence
Donald Trump
Peter Thiel, venture capitalist

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Continuing from Thiel:


Tim Cook, Apple CEO
Safra Catz, Oracle CEO

Also in attendance:


Elon Musk, Tesla CEO
Gary Cohn, Goldman Sachs president and Trump's chief economic adviser
Wilbur Ross, Trump's commerce secretary pick
Stephen Miller, senior policy adviser
Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO
Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO
Chuck Robbins, Cisco CEO
Jared Kushner, investor and Trump's son-in-law
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee and White House chief of staff
Steve Bannon, chief strategist to Trump
Eric Schmidt, Alphabet president
Alex Karp, Palantir CEO
Brian Krzanich, Intel CEO

Horn
15th December 2016, 03:12 PM
China wants what Trump wants, imo

they operate in like fashion

Dogman
15th December 2016, 03:34 PM
China wants what Trump wants, imo

they operate in like fashion

Just a matter of time for Asia to spark ww3, no iffs no maybes , but more of a question of when!

Now where the first spark starts it comes from, China, North Korea, but never forget Russia being in the mix!

If china looses manufacturing, well they already have stolen the technology or it was given to them, the loss of income because of market share could trigger it.

Interesting times, sorta hope I live long enough to see it play out, and with our new prez I just might see it happen!

Geopolitical shit is a total mind fuck, but not playing the national game with the other players is not an option if we want to survive as a nation!

IMHO