Two of tech’s biggest leaders person plans to conscionable with President-elect Donald Trump soon. The Information reports that Google CEO Sundar Pichai is flying to Palm Beach, Florida, connected Thursday, and Trump has said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is gathering with him adjacent week.
Trump has had a tumultuous narration with Google, claiming the hunt motor is “rigged” to fell affirmative sum astir him. However, successful caller weeks, Trump claimed aggregate times that Pichai called him connected the phone. Pichai said during The New York Times DealBook Summit past week that the calls had “nothing to do” with the government’s antitrust cases against Google.
As reported by The Information, sources don’t expect Pichai to “make immoderate nonstop overtures to Trump astir the antitrust suit oregon different regulatory topics.” Trump said successful October helium would “do something” astir Google when asked whether he’d spell arsenic acold arsenic breaking the institution up. Google declined to remark astir Pichai’s reported visit.
Additionally, Trump confirmed that Bezos “is coming up adjacent week” during an interrogation with CNBC connected Thursday. Despite Trump’s feud with Amazon during his presidency, Bezos said he’s “very optimistic this clip around.” The Verge reached retired to Amazon with a petition for remark but didn’t instantly perceive back.
Pichai and Bezos aren’t the lone tech leaders trying to creaseless implicit their rocky histories with Trump. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg — who Trump threatened to enactment successful prison — met for meal astatine Mar-a-Lago successful November. Meta besides donated $1 cardinal to Trump’s inauguration fund, according to The Wall Street Journal.