Remembering David Bonderman, a Private Equity Pioneer

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : And Trump invited Xi Jinping, China's leader, to his inauguration, according to CBS News.
65% : One possible reason: C.E.O.s may be reading the room, and right now, being open to working with Trump is in their companies' best interests.
63% : Business leaders have been wooing Trump ever since many predicted that he would win the election.
55% : After Trump won, the Meta chief flew to Mar-a-Lago for a dinner with him.
52% : But the donation, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, is an indication of how far even the biggest companies and their leaders will go to get on the right side of Trump.
52% : Tim Cook of Apple and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet are among those who have courted Trump or publicly supported some of his agenda in a bid to help their businesses.
24% : Trump has also accused Zuckerberg of "plotting" against him -- and threatened to imprison the tech mogul for life if he felt he did so again in the 2024 election.
21% : The business leaders who spoke with Andrew last week largely expressed their optimism for the Trump administration, including Jeff Bezos, whom Trump had clashed with when he was last president.
17% : Trump has accused Meta several times of censoring him, including when it suspended his accounts on its platforms after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
14% : In other transition news: Christopher Wray, the F.B.I. director, said he would resign after Trump had signaled his intention to replace him.

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