When tech titans Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook hung out together at a pre-inauguration church service in Washington, DC, Monday morning it was apparently by choice.
A source in the know told The Post that, while a few seats at Monday morning’s service at St. John’s Church were reserved for President Donald Trump’s family and members of his staff, others were not assigned.
Meta CEO Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Bezos, Google CEO Pichai and Apple head Tim Cook were photographed together almost in a perfect row.
Afterward, Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan were spotted chatting with Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, as they all headed into the Capitol Rotunda for Trump’s swearing-in. Inside, Bezos — whose Blue Origin had its first successful launch of the New Glenn rocket last week— was seen on camera laughing with his space-race rival and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
The group, including Pichai, were placed on the dais directly behind Trump’s own family.
“For the first time in my life, you have a president and an incoming White House who are aligned with Silicon Valley,” Nick Bilton, author of “Hatching Twitter,” told The Post. “That’s why you’ve got Bezos and Sundar and Zuck there. They see this as an opportunity to finally work with the government. I think we’re going to see more tech advancements in the next four years than we have seen in the last 40 years.”
Notably, cameras did not catch any conversation between Musk and Zuckerberg, who once threatened to face off against each other in a cage match.
“While they are all competitors, they are all somewhat friends,” Bilton said of the tech titans.
“I guess the analogy would be a bunch of guys get invited to a wedding and they don’t really know anyone else, so they wind up at the same table,” he added of Bezos, Zuckerberg and Cook sitting together in the church. “Plus, they’re all in the green room together at tech conferences where they speak and they all go to the same billionaire dinners. So it makes sense for them to be together.”
Open AI’s Sam Altman and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew were also at the swearing-in, where Zuckerberg, Bezos, Pechai and Musk had prime seats: right behind Trump’s children and in front of Defense Department nominee Pete Hegseth and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who Trump has tapped for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
“They all strike me as slightly unlikely Trump supporters. But, you know, they’ve got to kiss the ring. And this is part of it,” one source told The Post of the tech CEOs’ pride-of-place seating.
“It’s also about self-preservation. They all need visas for educated workers and it seems like a good opportunity for putting in policy that can help technology. They now have an opportunity to sit at the table. They want to expand and succeed and acquire. So, they are playing this game.”
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