Obama, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and the other Guys (and ONE Woman) at Dinner

If we want technological growth, lots of the folks in this room are essential. That’s why they joined the President (center, right side) for dinner Thursday night in Silicon Valley.

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 (on one side of the President)
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 (on the other side of the President)

Here’s a list from ZD net, courtesy of SearchEngineLand, of who might have been there but wasn’t.

Sam Palmisano, CEO of IBM
Leo Apotheker, CEO of HP
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com
Paul Otinelli, CEO of Intel

SearchEngineLand alsolists the political contributions of those who were in the room. You won’t be surprised at the correlation. Even so – seems sensible for these folks to work together to improve our future workforce and prospects, no?

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Ira & Ellie L.

4:11AM PST on Feb 26, 2011

I agree, Sound Mind, "Good things could come of this," and I believe they will!

February 26
send a green star

Jaka G.

6:16PM PST on Feb 21, 2011

Zuckerberg is probably the youngest there, cool stuff

February 21
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monica r.

6:11PM PST on Feb 21, 2011

Well who is the other woman in the photo? There are TWO pictured...

Renate W.

2:49PM PST on Feb 20, 2011

who's the other woman?

February 20
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Alexandra R.

8:17PM PST on Feb 19, 2011

Obviously the president is getting on with the agenda that he announce in his State of the Union speech. Would have liked to have been a "fly on the wall" there.

February 19
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Marilyn L.

7:56PM PST on Feb 19, 2011

Thanks for the article.

Bon L.

5:41PM PST on Feb 19, 2011

Thanks for the info.

Joshua I.

5:24PM PST on Feb 19, 2011

They are devising another IMMORAL FRAUDULENT SCHEME, so expect the WORSE, from their CRIMINAL MINDED way to do business...

William F.

4:04PM PST on Feb 19, 2011

Because of their greed attitudes.

Geoffrey Y.

3:46PM PST on Feb 19, 2011

Is the Silicon Valley (or partically main street), new capitalists, should be the backend of Democrats? Perhaps it was long time ago. I have to agree these new capitalists are much better than the old capitalists. But it does not mean any money power driven force involves in political power in good for America. We need transparent campaign fund. “Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate!”