{"id":21844,"date":"2025-02-08T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21844"},"modified":"2025-02-08T10:26:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T10:26:56","slug":"microsoft-and-nvidia-take-a-quieter-approach-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21844","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft and Nvidia Take a Quieter Approach to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Other big technology companies have been boisterous in their courtship of the new administration. But Nvidia and Microsoft have avoided the Washington spotlight.<\/p>\n

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Friday afternoon last week, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the chipmaker Nvidia, slipped into the White House to meet President Trump for the first time. There was no fanfare, and he left without a single public photo taken of the two.<\/p>\n

Two weeks earlier, Microsoft\u2019s chief executive, Satya Nadella, had a lengthy lunch with Mr. Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. They dined with little fuss and also barely made the news.<\/p>\n

Neither executive joined his big tech contemporaries who stood ramrod<\/a> behind Mr. Trump at his inauguration. Instead, the two were on entirely different continents: Mr. Nadella was traveling to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, while Mr. Huang was wrapping up a visit to see suppliers and employees in Taiwan and China.<\/p>\n

The absence at the inauguration of the chief executives of two of the world\u2019s most valuable companies was perhaps the most visual sign that some companies were trying a lower-key approach as Mr. Trump returned to Washington, even as some peers took to flamboyant displays of courtship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For companies like Microsoft and Nvidia, which unlike many of their peers haven\u2019t angered Mr. Trump, \u201cit is almost business as usual,\u201d said S. Somasegar, a former Microsoft executive now at Madrona Venture Group who speaks regularly with Mr. Nadella.<\/p>\n

While Microsoft and Nvidia share a quieter approach to Mr. Trump, their footprints in Washington are the polar opposite. Microsoft, on the cusp of its 50th anniversary and schooled by its antitrust fight more than two decades ago, is arguably tech\u2019s savviest player on policy issues<\/a>, with a strong lobbying arm and executives who have nurtured contacts in both political parties.<\/p>\n

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Other big technology companies have been boisterous in their courtship of the new administration. But Nvidia and Microsoft have avoided the Washington spotlight.Friday afternoon last week, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the chipmaker Nvidia, slipped into the White House to meet President Trump for the first time. There was no fanfare, and he left without a single public photo taken of the two.Two weeks earlier, Microsoft\u2019s chief executive, Satya Nadella, had a lengthy lunch with Mr. Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. They dined with little fuss and also barely made the news.Neither executive joined his big tech contemporaries who stood ramrod behind Mr. Trump at his inauguration. Instead, the two were on entirely different continents: Mr. Nadella was traveling to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, while Mr. Huang was wrapping up a visit to see suppliers and employees in Taiwan and China.The absence at the inauguration of the chief executives of two of the world\u2019s most valuable companies was perhaps the most visual sign that some companies were trying a lower-key approach as Mr. Trump returned to Washington, even as some peers took to flamboyant displays of courtship.For companies like Microsoft and Nvidia, which unlike many of their peers haven\u2019t angered Mr. Trump, \u201cit is almost business as usual,\u201d said S. Somasegar, a 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 polar opposite. Microsoft, on the cusp of its 50th anniversary and schooled by its antitrust fight more than two decades ago, is arguably tech\u2019s savviest player on policy issues, with a strong lobbying arm and executives who have nurtured contacts in both political parties.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21846,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21847,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844\/revisions\/21847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}