The LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton titan had prime seating near former Presidents Bill Clinton, George Bush and Barack Obama.

Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bernard Arnault, Tim Cook and other deep-pocket attendees were allotted prime seats at the inau

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 20: Guests including Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk attend the Inauguration of Donald J. Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson – Pool/Getty Images.

In one way, Bay Area tech CEOs’ very visible presence at President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday was an almighty flex, a crowning moment for an industry that has remade the economy and society.

The chief executive of TikTok, which went dark but then returned over the weekend, was among the tech executives who attended President Trump's inauguration. NBC News' Savannah Sellers reports.

Seated directly behind the president at his second inauguration and representing a power shift in U.S. politics were top executives of the world’s largest tech companies.

It’s going to be led by dynamic entrepreneurial capitalism.” The deal has since fallen apart, he says, a process he credits to, among other related causes, “the Great Awokening,” radicalized “America-hating communist” tech employees and political staffers,

Trump's family members, his vice president, his Cabinet appointments and a handful of his billionaire donors on Monday were a few key faces that sent a clear signal: Big Tech is in the president’s inner circle.