[Update] Jobs, Schmidt, and Zuckerberg to Meet with President Obama Today
Update 1: The LA Times has an official list of all the attendees meeting Obama tonight in San Francisco. Talk about a list of tech industry giants:
- 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
Despite what you may have heard in the past 24 hours, Steve Jobs is scheduled to meet with President Obama today. According to ABC News:
Jobs, Schmidt and Zuckerberg will be among many business leaders in technology and innovation the president will sit down and talk to, as he continues to sell his State of the Union message.
“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,†a White House official said.
Hmm. I thought they’d be talking about the iPhone Nano.