Elon Musk: “I think this year it will be the case that you, from a technical standpoint, you'll be able to fall asleep in the Tesla and wake up at your destination."
🇺🇸 The Trump–Xi state dinner that just took place featured a large group of U.S. CEOs and top executives.
Head table (with Trump, Melania, Xi, and Peng Liyuan):
Elon Musk — Tesla and SpaceX CEO
Jensen Huang — Nvidia CEO
Lisa Su — AMD CEO
Tim Cook — Apple Executive Chairman
Other notable tech / AI / Semiconductor CEOs and leaders:
Mark Zuckerberg — Meta CEO
Sam Altman — OpenAI CEO
Satya Nadella — Microsoft Chairman & CEO
Sundar Pichai — Google/Alphabet CEO
Sergey Brin — Alphabet/Google co-founder
Jeff Bezos — Amazon Chairman
Michael Dell — Dell CEO
Cristiano Amon — Qualcomm CEO
Sanjay Mehrotra — Micron CEO
Eric Yuan — Zoom CEO
Finance and Wall Street:
Jamie Dimon — JPMorgan Chase CEO
Larry Fink — BlackRock CEO
Stephen Schwarzman — Blackstone CEO
David Solomon — Goldman Sachs CEO
Jane Fraser — Citigroup CEO
Ryan McInerney — Visa CEO
Michael Miebach — Mastercard CEO
Industry, defense, and other:
Kelly Ortberg — Boeing CEO
Mary Barra — General Motors CEO
Larry Culp — GE Aerospace CEO
Jim Taiclet — Lockheed Martin Chairman, President & CEO
Albert Bourla — Pfizer CEO
did my https://t.co/zANOEvvHvH at IIT Bombay and my PhD at IIT Delhi. I've been a professor for 14 years now. In 22 years of watching the IIT/IIIT system closely, I have never once witnessed a teacher discriminate against a student on the basis of caste.
During my https://t.co/zANOEvvHvH, most of us had no idea what caste our batchmates belonged to. Many of my close friends were SC/ST. We never discussed it. It never entered any conversation or decision. Not once. Our exposure to the humanities department was limited, though — the term "Brahmanical patriarchy" didn't even exist back then.
As a teacher, I don't ask a student's name before solving their doubt. Often I don't know their name at all — some of my classes have 300+ students. We treat them all the same. So does every colleague I know. So did every professor who taught me.
Social media has now filled vulnerable students' heads with a lot of manufactured grievance about caste discrimination that, in my experience, doesn't exist.