Bloomberg News
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk plans to be in attendance at President-elect Donald Trump’s meeting of tech-industry executives this Wednesday in New York, according to people familiar with the matter.
Musk is the chief executive of electric-car maker Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA, +0.36% and rocket company Space Exploration Technologies Corp., and is a close associate of Peter Thiel, the tech investor and entrepreneur that backed Trump during the campaign. Thiel sits on the transition team and is helping to organize this Wednesday’s meeting. He and Musk were both founders of payments company PayPal, and Thiel’s venture-capital firm Founders Fund backs SpaceX.
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As reported Saturday, other tech executives expected to attend Wednesday’s meeting include Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.66% Chief Executive Tim Cook, Facebook Inc. FB, -1.38% Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.02% CEO Satya Nadella, and both the CEO and chairman of Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, -0.31% , Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, people familiar with the plans said. The CEOs of Intel Corp. INTC, -0.14% , International Business Machines Corp. IBM, -0.16% , Oracle Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, +0.13% are also expected to attend, the people said.
An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com.
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