The days of tech CEOs tussling with Donald Trump are fading. After distancing themselves from Trump during his first administration'and publicly rebuking him after the events of January 6, 2021'many Silicon Valley leaders are now taking a softer approach. Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have each pledged, through their companies or their personal coffers, individual $1 million donations to Trump's inauguration fund. The Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who protested Trump's immigration policies in 2017, apparently dined at Mar-a-Lago with Trump and Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, this month; Bezos, along with the the heads of TikTok and Netflix, are reportedly on the schedule there this week too. As Trump put it in a press conference today: 'In the first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.' Friendship may not be exactly what these tech CEOs are after. Self-preservation seems to be playing a role'these companies don't want...
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