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Apple CEO Tim Cook and incoming CEO John Ternus are attending this year's Sun Valley Conference, according to Forbes.

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Allen & Co., the boutique investment firm behind the event, uses the conference as an annual excuse to put media, tech, and finance leaders in the same rooms for a week of closed-door talks at the Sun Valley Lodge. This year's event began on July 7 and is expected to run through July 11.

This marks Cook's final Sun Valley trip as Apple's chief executive officer. Apple announced in April that Ternus will take the CEO title on September 1, ending Cook's 15-year run atop the company as he moves into the newly created executive chairman role.

Apple's SVP of Services and Health, Eddy Cue, is also attending the Sun Valley Conference again this year. Cue has been a regular at the conference in previous years.

This year's guest list places Apple's leadership alongside a heavy concentration of AI industry figures, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Palantir CEO Alex Karp, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

Beyond the AI contingent, this year's attendees include Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

Sun Valley's reputation as a dealmaking backdrop goes back decades. Casual conversations at the resort are widely credited with laying the groundwork for Disney buying ABC in 1995, Bezos picking up The Washington Post in 2013, and Verizon's 2014 deal for AOL.

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turbineseaplane
9 weeks ago
There will be much better pictures coming out from this week that are from the actual conference.

It actually cracks me up that almost anytime you see a photo online of one of the zillionaires, it's almost always taken here at the Allen conference.

I live here and the weather is fantastic.

There’s easily over $1 billion worth of private jets parked at our airport right now.

This was yesterday while the arrivals were just getting started. 👇



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turbineseaplane
9 weeks ago
I'm quite positive Zuck won't be allowed to walk around recording with his PervGlasses at this conference, which should tell you what even the leaders of the tech companies think of them & the tech.

It's similar to how many of them don't allow their own kids onto the social media platforms THEY profit off of.

"Respect for privacy & mental health for me, not thee"
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MacStudioPlease
9 weeks ago
Tim Apple: "introducing the all new John Apple!"
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FlyBry
9 weeks ago

There will be much better pictures coming out from this week that are from the actual conference.

It actually cracks me up that almost anytime you see a photo online of one of the zillionaires, it's almost always taken here at the Allen conference.

I live here and the weather is fantastic.

There’s easily over $1 billion worth of private jets parked at our airport right now.

This was yesterday while the arrivals were just getting started. 👇


This is one location where a 8 year old $14 million Cessna Citation X+ is a "budget buy" jet.
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CarAnalogy
9 weeks ago

There will be much better pictures coming out from this week that are from the actual conference.

It actually cracks me up that almost anytime you see a photo online of one of the zillionaires, it's almost always taken here at the Allen conference.

I live here and the weather is fantastic.

There’s easily over $1 billion worth of private jets parked at our airport right now.

This was yesterday while the arrivals were just getting started. 👇


I'm assuming all the really interesting thing happens at night. In the woods. Around a pentagram.
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zoomy942
9 weeks ago

There will be much better pictures coming out from this week that are from the actual conference.

It actually cracks me up that almost anytime you see a photo online of one of the zillionaires, it's almost always taken here at the Allen conference.

I live here and the weather is fantastic.

There’s easily over $1 billion worth of private jets parked at our airport right now.

This was yesterday while the arrivals were just getting started. 👇


Hailey resident here too - They are stacking jets where ever they can.
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