Trump’s Tech Meeting & Immigration

Yesterday, Trump met with heavy hitters in the Tech industry including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Alphabet’s Larry Page, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk.

Silicon Valley news site Recode reports that immigration was discussed:

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella brought up perhaps the most thorny issue: Immigration and how the government can help tech with things like H-1B visas to keep and bring in more talent. Nadella pointed out that much of the company’s spending on research and development was in the U.S., even if 50 percent of the sales were elsewhere, so that immigration would benefit those here.

Surprisingly to the group, Trump apparently responded favorably, “Let’s fix that,” he said, without a specific promise, and then asked, “What can I do to make it better?”

Interesting.

-KitJ