Despite widespread disdain among many technology executives for Donald Trump before he was elected president, their meeting Wednesday at Trump Tower in New York appeared to produce no fireworks.

Indeed, by all reports, both Trump and the executives struck a conciliatory tone, one at odds with some Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and rank-and-file at Valley companies who oppose Trump’s stands on issues from immigrants to net neutrality. Many criticized the executives for appearing to bow to a president-elect whose views they dislike, even before he takes office.

The 90-minute meeting was much anticipated because many of the attendees at the meeting were vocal supporters of Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the election. Television cameras were allowed in the room for the introductions but were soon ushered away. However, some photos of the event appeared to show sober expressions on the faces of several of the execs.

The attendees at the 90-minute meeting, as expected, included Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Larry Page and Chairman Eric Schmidt, Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith, Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook, Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk, Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos and IBM Corp. CEO Ginni Rometty. Also in attendance were top executives from Intel Corp., Facebook Inc., Oracle Corp., Palantir Technologies Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc.

Trump himself brought a fairly large group, including four of his children. Also attending were the orchestrator of the event, entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel, along with Trump adviser Steve Bannon, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President-elect Mike Pence, Wilbur Ross, Trump’s choice for Commerce secretary, and National Economic Council pick Gary Cohn.

One of the concerns over the Trump victory among tech leaders is that during a time of record growth in the industry Trump might upset the apple cart, especially with his pledge to rethink free trade. In an effort to placate these fears, Trump reportedly opened the meeting by stating, “We are going to make fair trade deals. We’re going to make it a lot easier for you to trade across borders because there are a lot of restrictions, a lot of problems.”

He also let the execs know they were a “truly amazing group of people,” and that the government was there to help the industry leaders. “In the world! There’s nobody like the people in this room,” Trump exclaimed.

Prior to the meeting Trump had made threats to a number of tech execs, one of whom was Bezos, a company Trump once said had a huge antitrust problem. Bezos also owns the Washington Post, which has run many hard-hitting stories about Trump and the apparent Russian hacking the Central Intelligence Agency this week said was specifically intended to help Trump.

Of the meeting, Bezos told CNBC, “I found today’s meeting with the president-elect, his transition team, and tech leaders to be very productive.” Bezos went on to say that he agreed that the new administration should make tech innovation one of its key strategies, adding that this avenue “would create a huge number of jobs across the whole country, in all sectors, not just tech – agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing – everywhere.”

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