Some of the most exclusive seats at President Donald Trump’s inauguration were reserved for powerful tech CEOs who also are among the world’s richest men.

The inauguration ceremony on January 20 was a star-studded affair, attended by billionaires and tech moguls from across industries

Watch Google CEO Sundar Pichai chats with Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the Donald Trump's oath ceremony at the Capitol in Washington, DC.

Elon Musk tops the list as the highest-paid CEO globally with $23.5 billion, primarily from Tesla's stock options. Tim Cook of Apple and Sundar Pichai

Some of the tech industry’s biggest names were present at Trump’s inauguration. Among the attendees were Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.

Among the guests at Donald Trump's second inauguration in Washington, D.C. today were three billionaire tech CEOs: Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. They were also joined by Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Major tech companies like Meta, Apple, Google and TikTok were represented in the front row at Trump's second presidential inauguration.

The attendees at a US presidential inauguration do not often resemble the annual gathering of the world’s richest in Davos, Switzerland, which kicked off on Monday, but the parallels were hard to ignore as Donald Trump was sworn in as US President.

His inauguration ceremony was attended by many notable figures, including former presidents and CEOs of major corporations like Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, among others.

Over one hundred years ago on September 1889, Sundar Singh was born in Rampur, in the region of Patiala northern India. He was raised in the luxury of his family's wealth. As a Sikh, Sundar was taught about Hinduism and came along with his parents to Hindu ...

A photograph captured during the event showed Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk using smartphones. Pichai was seen with what appeared to be Google's latest Pixel 9 series (which makes sense for the Google boss), while Musk held an iPhone 16 Pro — a surprising choice considering Musk's past criticism of Apple.