For CEOs and CEO aspirants, forging or simply strengthening direct relationships with the White House will be of even greater importance during the next presidential term, as evidenced by the spate of tech executives who are bending the knee ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, for instance, visited Mar-a-Lago over Thanksgiving week in an attempt to repair his fractious relationship with the president-elect, who's long been critical of the technocrat's social media platform.
