Saudi Prince meets Google executives Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai in Silicon Valley
Prince, keen to set up tech hub in his kingdom, also held talks with Apple’s Tim Cook, Magic Leap’s Rony Abovitz and Virgin’s Richard Branson during US trip
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The Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met a host of Silicon Valley technology company executives while in the United States last week, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz, and Virgin founder Richard Branson, photographs reveal.
Widely known as "MBS”, the prince stopped off at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, to rub shoulders with a handful of company leaders.
The prince was pictured shaking hands with Hiroshi Lockheimer, the Google senior vice-president, who runs Android, Chrome, and other platforms, while CEO Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice-president of technical infrastructure, Urs Hölzle, and leader of Google’s cloud business, Diane Greene, appear in the background.
He also met Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder and president of parent company Alphabet. They discussed cloud computing and the establishment of a research and development centre for Saudi youth, according to an Arabian news publication.
The chief executive of the world's largest energy company, Saudi Aramco, told CNBC last month that his company wanted to team up with the likes of Amazon and Google to build a technology hub in the kingdom.