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The CEOs of Tesla, Uber, and Pepsi have joined President-elect Donald Trump's "Strategic and Policy Forum":
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped three additional high-profile chief executives including Tesla's Elon Musk to join a group that will meet regularly to give input on job creation and the economy.
Trump announced the first batch of CEOs for his "strategic and policy forum" on Dec. 2. The group is led by Stephen Schwarzman, the chief executive of Blackstone. Trump's transition team now said the group would expand to include Tesla's Musk, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, and Pepsi chief Indra Nooyi.
From the article at The Wrap:
Trump announced the initial 16 members earlier this month, and the group will be chaired by Blackstone CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman. According to a press release distributed by Trump's transition team, "Members of the Forum will be charged with providing their individual views to the President — informed by their unique vantage points in the private sector — on how government policy impacts economic growth, job creation and productivity."
Also at WSJ (paywalled).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @04:36PM
Uber: We're planning to displace workers by the millions, but we're also in the innovation business competing with China and India so don't regulate us.
Musk: We need to roll out an EV charging infrastructure nationwide, and our space launches fail as often as not, but don't do anything that gets in our way.
Pepsi: We're in the business of helping make millions of Americans obese. We know you're not going to pull a Mike Bloomberg on us, but you could still do a lot of damage with nasty tweets and remarks at rallies and press conferences so we're here to play nice.
Bezos: I'm not going to apologize for what appeared in the Washington Post, but Amazon is displacing thousands and thousands of retail and IT jobs (and soon, transportation jobs) so I'm here to talk up innovation.
Trump: Look at all these captains of industry I have on my team. We're going to MAGA.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @09:07PM
What they're doing sounds more like a lemon party.