Friday afternoon last week, Jensen Huang, the managing director of the NVIDIA flea manufacturer, slipped to the White House to meet President Trump for the first time. There was no fanfare and he left without a single public photo taken from both.
Two weeks earlier, Microsoft’s managing director Satya Nadella had a long lunch with Trump in his Mar-A-Lago field in Florida. They dined with little agitation and also barely made the headlines.
None of the two executives joined his Great technological contemporaries who stood in the wand Behind Mr. Trump at his inauguration. Instead, the two were on completely different continents: Mr. Nadella went to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, while Mr. Huang wrapped a visit to see suppliers and employees in Taiwan and China.
The absence during the inauguration of the leaders of the management of two of the most precious companies in the world was perhaps the most visual sign that certain companies were trying a lower key approach while Mr. Trump returned to Washington, Even though some peers took flamboyant demonstrations of demonstrations of demonstrations of flamboyant of demonstrations of demonstrations of demonstrations of flame of flame of demonstrations of demonstrations of flamboyant exhibitions of flamboyant exposure of flamboyant exhibitions of flamboyant of court.
For companies like Microsoft and Nvidia, which, unlike many of their peers, have not been angry at Mr. Trump, “it’s almost as usual,” said Somasegar, former Microsoft executive now at Madrona Venture Group who speaks regularly with Mr. Nadella.
While Microsoft and Nvidia share a quieter approach to Mr. Trump, their footprints in Washington are the opposite polar. Microsoft, at the dawn of its 50th anniversary and educated by its antitrust fight more than two decades ago, is No doubt the tastiest tech player on politics issuesWith a strong lobbying arm and executives who have maintained contacts in the two political parties.