Tech moguls are arriving at the annual Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference, a media summit for the cream of the crop.According to the San Francisco Chronicle, this year’s conference will feature Bill Gates interviewing Mark Zuckerberg in what’s sure to be the most awkward and beautifully geeky conversation, oh, ever.
Actually, the two will have a lot to talk about, and not only because of their similar Harvard-dropout turned billionaire life stories.
Facebook and Microsoft are getting increasingly cozy, a fact Zuckerberg and Skype CEO Tony Bates mentioned at the social network’s sort-of awesome announcement earlier this week.
Skype, of course, is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft, and Microsoft owns a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook.
Who else will attend the Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference in 2011
Salma with her husband Francois-Henri Pinault
Groupon founders Andrew Mason and Erik Lefkofsky
Sony CEO Howard Stringer
Diane von Furstenberg and her son Alex
Seagate CEO Steve Luczo
Microsoft’s chief of research Craig Mundie
Rupert, Wendy & Lachlan Murdoch
Google’s Larry Page and his wife Lucy
AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong
Mason Hawkins of Southeastern Asset Management
Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of the WWP group
Robin Li, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of search engine Baidu
David Zaslav, President and Chief Executive Officer of Discovery
Tim Westergren, Chief Strategy Officer & Founder of Pandora
Bob Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television
Niall Fitzgerald of Thompson Reuters
Michael Eisner
Barry diller
Warren and Peter Buffet
Reid Hoffman
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg
Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman
Greg Maffei of Liberty Media
About Allen & Company
Founded in 1922 by Charles Robert Allen, Jr., he was soon joined by his brother, Herbert A. Allen, Sr.. Today, the firm is generally regarded as the premier investment house in the media and entertainment sector despite having only a small staff (estimated at 170 employees).
Allen & Company, which is currently run by Herb Allen, nephew of the founder, generally shies away from publicity and does not maintain a website or issue press releases.
In 1973, Allen & Company bought a stake in Columbia Pictures. When the business was sold in 1982 to Coca-Cola, they netted a significant profit. Since then, Herbert Allen, Jr. has had a place on Coke’s board of directors.
Since its founding in 1982, the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference regularly draws such heavyweights as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Johnson, Andy Grove, Richard Parsons, Donald Keough, and many others. Excite quotes a “media mogul”: “Deals just don’t get done in Hollywood unless Allen & Co. has a hand in it.”
Allen & Co. was one of the underwriters for the Google initial public offering, and have been retained to assist the ownership of the New York Mets in obtaining a strategic partner.
Notable current employees
Nancy Peretsman Formerly of Salomon Brothers, Director of Priceline
Donald Keough former Coca-Cola President
George Tenet Former Director of the CIA
Steve Greenberg, son of baseball Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg
Bill Bradley Former United States Senator and Basketball Hall of Famer
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