Updated 10:26 p.m.
WOODSIDE, Calif. -- President Obama traveled Thursday night to northern California for an evening meeting with a group of Silicon Valley chief executives, among them Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, and Steve Jobs, the ailing head of Apple.
The closed-door session with 12 technology leaders was held at the home of John Doerr, a partner at the major Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Others in the room include Oracle founder and chief executive Larry Ellison, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Twitter CEO Dick Costolo.
Others attending the session were John Hennessy, the president of Stanford University; Carol Bartz, president and CEO, Yahoo!; John Chambers, CEO and chairman, Cisco Systems; Art Levinson, chairman and former CEO, Genentech; and Steve Westly, managing partner and founder, The Westly Group.
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Let us end on this irony:
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A personal note:
There are rumors and facts about the health of Steve Jobs. Although his politics may follow a much different path, his genius for ideas and fulfillment of them has changed the world. There would be no Mac, no popular graphic interface, no intercommunication between computers, no Windows, no usable PC, no laptops that we could enjoy, no ipods with massively portable libraries of books and music, no iPhone, ipads, and on and on.
Steve Jobs truly is a person you can look at and see the world has changed for the better because of him! Please be well! [Mooserider]
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