Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain
by Carole Cadwalladr from Technology | The Guardian on (#6PBWX)
Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, a longtime backer of the new vice-president pick, are among those pledging support
Less than a month after Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016, he invited the cream of Silicon Valley's tech elite to a meeting at his transition team's headquarters at Trump Tower.
It was an awkward affair. Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Google's Larry Page and Amazon's Jeff Bezos had facial expressions that ranged from a semi-rictus grin to full tech-mogul-in-a-hostage-situation. But then, in a sense they were. There was a new sheriff in town - and none of them had seen him coming.
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