Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos spoke to a group of Amazon employees on Monday, November 12, 2018, during the Amazon Veterans Day event.
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Tech’s CEO and Silicon Valley veterans on Saturday congratulated President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris after their victory in the US presidential election.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos celebrated the victory of Biden and Harris in an Instagram post. Bezos said that his victory signified that “unity, sympathy and decency are not the characteristics of any era.”
Bezos has a rocky relationship with President Donald Trump throughout his presidency. Trump has repeatedly taken aim at Bezos over his ownership of The Washington Post, Amazon’s tax records and his relationship with the Postal Service.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who has been a vocal critic of Trump’s coronovirus response, said he is “working with leaders from both sides in the new administration and Congress.”
Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote a blog post congratulating Biden and Harris, calling for unity across the country. “If we want to move forward as a nation, we have to build new bridges to close the gap of our division,” Smith said.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Priscilla Chan, wife of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and cofounder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, both congratulated Harris for her historic victory, her first black American woman and first female vice president of South Asian American descent. Chosen. .
“After a few days, we now know that Joe Biden will be our next president – and for the first time in 231 years, our next vice president will be a black and South Asian American woman, a daughter of immigrants,” Sandberg wrote in a Facebook post . “There are times when America takes a big step towards forming a government that represents a diverse country through us. Today is one of those days.”
Lauren Powell Jobs, the widow of Emerson Collective founder and Apple founder Steve Jobs, also celebrated the victory of Biden and Harris In a tweet, Noting that the vice-presidential victory represents a “broken roof ceiling once and for all”.
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins wrote in a tweet that the company aligns with Biden and Harris’s belief that “we must build a more inclusive future for all.”
Box CEO Aaron Levy in a series of tweets celebrating the victory of Biden and Harris. Levy said his win would be “great for American competition”.
“While there’s nothing magical Biden, that’s it,” Levy said. “Businesses need market stability, global business relationships that do not change at all times, everywhere from lack of talent, long-range planning and constant distraction.”
CEO of Revolution and AOL co-founder Steve Case said he was “delighted” that Biden was elected to become America’s 46th president
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