And a fine dinner it was at the Silicon Valley home of venture capitalist John Doerr, a partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Take a look at the list of luminaries who were at the dinner with President Obama, discussing how government and technology businesses can work together to “win the future.”
Why did they get together for this high-powered hang out? Here’s how a White House official described the dinner:
- 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, Westly Group
- Mark Zuckerberg, founder, president and CEO, Facebook
“The meeting is a part of our ongoing dialogue with the business community on how we can work together to win the future, strengthen our economy, support entrepreneurship, increasing our exports, and get the American people back to work. The President and the business leaders will discuss our shared goal of promoting American innovation, and discuss his commitment to new investments in research and development, education and clean energy.”Here’s another shot with Zuckerberg and Obama schmoozing before dinner:
We’re still trying to identify a couple of the people in the photo at the top of the page — let us know if you have any clues. What do you think they’re toasting?
Images courtesy of Flickr, Pete Souza
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