Big Tech, mainstream media, and public officials to gather for secret Sun Valley conference this week

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The conference is organized by the underwriter of many major Big Tech IPOs.

Tom Parker

July 5 2021

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, Council of Foreign Relations President Richard Haass, and other influential figures from Big Tech, mainstream media, and politics are on the guest list for a private, five day Sun Valley conference in Idaho that kicks off on July 6.

The annual conference was started in 1982 by the private investment firm Allen & Company – a company that has been the underwriter for several major Big Tech initial public offerings (IPOs) and an adviser for other significant Big Tech acquisitions.

Allen & Co. was one of the underwriters for Google’s 2004 IPO, Facebook’s 2012 IPO, and Twitter’s 2013 IPO. It was also a co-manager for LinkedIn’s 2011 IPO.

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The mainstream media representatives that have been invited to attend include Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, ViacomCBS chairwoman Shari Redstone, WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar, Discovery CEO David Zaslav, ABC News special contributor Diane Sawyer, CNN hosts Anderson Cooper and Van Jones, CNBC hosts Andrew Ross Sorkin and Becky Quick, CBS host Gayle King, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, and retired journalist Tom Brokaw.

And the current and former public officials who are on the invite list for the 2021 Sun Valley conference include Council of Foreign Relations President Richard Haass, former US Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, former US Secretary of State James Baker, former Commander of the US Special Forces William McRaven, and former White House drug control policy advisor Kevin Sabet.

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