Obama sits down for dinner with Silicon Valley elite

The White house has just released a few official photos from U.S. President Barack Obama's dinner with some of today's tech, business and Web leaders. As SFGate reports, the dinner took place at the secluded estate of star Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife, Ann. The dinner lasted two hours and included a dozen of the most powerful leaders in the Valley. SFGate confirms the following people were in attendance with Obama and Doerr: Carol Bartz, president and CEO of Yahoo; Cisco Systems' CEO John Chambers; Twitter CEO Dick Costolo; Oracle CEO Larry Ellison; Netflix CEO Reed Hastings; Stanford University President John Hennessy; Apple Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs; Genentech Chairman and former CEO Art Levinson; Google CEO Eric Schmidt; former state controller and venture capitalist Steve Westly and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

President Barack Obama talks with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg before a dinner with Technology Business Leaders in Woodside, California, Feb. 17, 2011. Also pictured, left to right, are Carol Bartz, Yahoo! President and CEO; Art Levinson, Genentech Chairman and former CEO; Steve Westly, Founder and Managing Partner, The Westly Group; and Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman and CEO of Google.

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It's the first time Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been spotted publicly since this story emerged, where doctors speculated on his so-called declining health. Many of the guests have been Democrat supporters. For more info on who was there and how they're connected to the White House, check out the SFGate article.