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Cisco CEO reveals what happened at the 'interactive' Trump Tower tech meeting with...

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DAVOS, Switzerland — Chuck Robbins, the CEO of Cisco, attended US President-elect Donald Trump's tech summit last month at Trump Tower.

Almost all of Silicon Valley's heavy hitters were there, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt.

What was discussed?

Robbins, who was on a Business Insider-led "Innovation" panel at the World Economic Forum here in Switzerland, said the group made progress in discussing diverging views on issues like trade and immigration. He also called the meeting "interactive" and said "lots of laughs" were shared.

"It was an incredibly constructive meeting," Robbins said. "And I think everyone that walked in that room put behind them whatever their political views were during the election."

He continued:

"I'll say that even the Trump team — everyone is looking forward at how we work together to solve challenges, to create jobs, and to do the things that need to be done ... We discussed issues of tax, we discussed trade, we discussed immigration, we discussed innovation and entrepreneurship, we discussed job creation, and it was a very engaging discussion. There was a lot of interactive dialogue. Lots of laughs. So it was a very constructive meeting.


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