Jeff Bezos' Amazon plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration, following Wednesday's news that Mark Zuckerberg's Meta made the same contribution, The Wall Street Journal reported. Meta confirmed to the Journal Wednesday that the company ...
Amazon plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump‘s upcoming inauguration, the latest sign that tech companies are seeking better relations with the incoming administration. The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets reported on the donation on Thursday evening.
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Meta announced a similar donation earlier in the week as tech leaders hope to reverse antagonistic relationships with the president-elect.
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman of Open AI are the latest moguls to each pony up identical $1 million gifts to the fund bankrolling the glitzy Jan. 20 return
(AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks in Las Vegas on June 6, 2019. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) Mark Zuckerberg talks about the Orion AR glasses during the Meta Connect conference on Sept. 25, 2024, in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo ...
Amazon and Meta, seeking to get in Donald Trump's good graces, are each giving $1 million to the president-elect's inauguration fund.
Tech moguls Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos have each pledged $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, a move that signals a shift in their relationship with the incoming administration.
But the Amazon founder isn’t the only billionaire ... just two weeks after Trump and company founder Mark Zuckerberg had dinner at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
The donations come after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President-elect Donald Trump and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said he was “optimistic" about Trump’s second term in the White House.
Zuckerberg is in the process of constructing Koolau Ranch, a 1,400-acre compound that includes two mansions and a dozen buildings.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Bloomberg a reportedly 4,500-sqaure-foot basement in his Hawaii compound was just a "little shelter."