Ted Sarandos will join a group of business leaders making the pilgrimage to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, a source has confirmed. diverse.
Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO, will visit the president-elect on Tuesday. No other details about the meeting were immediately available. The meeting was first reported by CNN’s Alina Train.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago in late November, followed by Google’s Sundar Pichai and Apple’s Tim Cook last week. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is expected to visit this week as well.
The incoming Trump administration has threatened to crack down on big tech platforms, particularly regarding censorship of conservative speech. Technology device manufacturers also have a lot to fear from Trump’s threats to impose a 60% tariff on Chinese goods, and a 10% tariff on all imports.
Meta, OpenAI, and Amazon also pledged last week to contribute $1 million each to Trump’s inauguration. Disney-owned ABC News also agreed to donate $15 million to Trump’s presidential library, as part of the defamation settlement announced Saturday.
Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, in front of a crowd that included senior executives from Goldman Sachs, MasterCard, Citigroup, Verizon and Target. At the event, Trump repeated his pledge to reduce corporate taxes to 15% on companies that manufacture their goods domestically.
Sarandos’ wife, Nicole Avant, donated $150,000 in September to support Kamala Harris and the Democratic National Committee. Sarandos has also given to Democrats in his own name in the past, though his contributions have diminished under Biden, and he will not donate in 2024.