Not Really the “Idiots’ Dinner”
Published in Le Figaro
(France) on 17 February 2011
by Véronique Saint-Geours (link to original)
(France) on 17 February 2011
by Véronique Saint-Geours (link to original)
Translated from
by Tim Xu.
Edited by Jenette Axelrod.
The photographer Pete Souza immortalized "the Dinner" of the year, this Thursday in California. He built a veritable Last Supper. It's true that there were too many apostles, but this tension toward a single person could be a modern update of the Last Supper, where the minds of the West Coast gathered around Obama to brainstorm during a “brainy” dinner.
How can their sector contribute to the creation of jobs? Yes, guest star Steve Jobs, who has a name predestined to embody the strategy of job creation, observes that this sector produces a multiplier effect of wealth and highly specialized jobs. But one must face up to the fact that the sector has nothing to do with the heavy industries where there are hordes of unemployed workers. For example, the 46,000 jobs worldwide created by Google represents 10 percent of the automobile industry.
It was a genuine dinner of American workers. Men in shirt sleeves and two women dressed in casual preppy style. Water in glasses. And none of the press tried to describe what was eaten. It was not even mentioned.
But the most brilliant casting ever and insurer of this operation was a security professional.
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
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
If you have an idea for how to make thunder, send it to one of the creative bosses of the business. They'll find it to be normal.
How can their sector contribute to the creation of jobs? Yes, guest star Steve Jobs, who has a name predestined to embody the strategy of job creation, observes that this sector produces a multiplier effect of wealth and highly specialized jobs. But one must face up to the fact that the sector has nothing to do with the heavy industries where there are hordes of unemployed workers. For example, the 46,000 jobs worldwide created by Google represents 10 percent of the automobile industry.
It was a genuine dinner of American workers. Men in shirt sleeves and two women dressed in casual preppy style. Water in glasses. And none of the press tried to describe what was eaten. It was not even mentioned.
But the most brilliant casting ever and insurer of this operation was a security professional.
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
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
If you have an idea for how to make thunder, send it to one of the creative bosses of the business. They'll find it to be normal.
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