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"And a fine dinner it was at the Silicon Valley home of venture capitalist John Doerr, a partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers. Take a look at the list of luminaries who were at the dinner with President Obama, discussing how government and technology businesses can work together to \"win the future.\"\n\n\nJohn Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers\nCarol Bartz, president and CEO, Yahoo!\nJohn Chambers, CEO and chairman, Cisco Systems\nDick Costolo, CEO, Twitter\nLarry Ellison, co-founder and CEO, Oracle\nReed Hastings, CEO, NetFlix\nJohn Hennessy, president, Stanford University\nSteve Jobs, chairman and CEO, Apple\nArt Levinson, chairman and former CEO, Genentech\nEric Schmidt, chairman and CEO, Google\nSteve Westly, managing partner and founder, Westly Group\nMark Zuckerberg, founder, president and CEO, Facebook\n\nWhy did they get together for this high-powered hang out? Here's how a White House official described the dinner:\n\"The meeting is a part of our ongoing dialogue with the business community on how we can work together to win the future, strengthen our economy, support entrepreneurship, increasing our exports, and get the American people back to work. The President and the business leaders will discuss our shared goal of promoting American innovation, and discuss his commitment to new investments in research and development, education and clean energy.\"\nHere's another shot with Zuckerberg and Obama schmoozing before dinner:\n\n\n\n\nWe're still trying to identify a couple of the people in the photo at the top of the page \u2014 let us know if you have any clues. What do you think they're toasting?\nImages courtesy of Flickr, Pete Souza\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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