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SUN VALLEY SUMMER CAMP
This is said to be bigger than Bilderberg.
The people who run the world aren’t hiding — they’re at Sun Valley Summer Camp
EACH year, the Western world’s most rich and powerful gather in a tiny mountain town in Idaho to attend a five-day summer camp called Sun Valley.
They arrive in private jets while hordes of photographers try to catch a glimpse of them entering a wooden mountainside ski lodge.
Think Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
WHAT IS ALLEN AND CO’S SUN VALLEY?
The secretive, exclusive and invite-only retreat was founded in 1983, 35 years ago. It’s a five-day summer-camp-style getaway for billionaires in media, finance, politics and power. Hosted at the historic Sun Valley Lodge outside Ketchum, Idaho, attendance costs a billion dollars. The camp is run by Herb Allen Jr, the chief executive officer of Allen and Co, a secretive Fifth Ave merger and acquisitions company.
The company itself is private and secretive, like its CEO, who does not issue press releases. The company also doesn’t have a website. The company does, however, have powerful employees, such as George Tenet, who used to run the Central Intelligence Agency, and its client list is similarly heavyweight.
Allen and Co has been instrumental as advisers in media acquisitions and takeovers, including Google’s initial public offering in 2004, Facebook’s $US19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014, Microsoft’s $US26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn and eBay’s separation from PayPal in 2015. This separation resulted in thousands of job losses at both PayPal and eBay over the ensuing years.
WHO ATTENDS SUN VALLEY SUMMER CAMP?
The common guest list is famously on lockdown, with Allen and Co staffers refusing to comment to the press about the conference.
Lifelong attendees include most media and finance heavy hitters: software billionaire Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, business magnate Warren Buffett, TV icon Oprah Winfrey, News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch (who now also brings his sons Lachlan and James), Apple mastermind Steve Jobs, Google founder Larry Page, Michael Dell of Dell Computers, Donald and Katherine Graham of The Washington Post, Nobuyuki Idei of Sony (now Lenovo), former head of CBS and Viacom Sumner Redstone (now deposed from his position by force by a geriatric psychiatrist) and former AOL CEO Steve Case.
Four of the five richest people on the planet attended this year: Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Also in regular attendance is Google chairman Eric Schmidt, Nike founder Phil Knight, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Apple heavy-hitter Tim Cook, NBA star and businessman LeBron James, NBCUniversal vice-chairman Ron Meyer (it is at this conference that the Comcast/NBC deal got off the ground), Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield,
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First Daughter Ivanka Trump and her partner Jared Kushner,
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former UK prime minister Tony Blair and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
The local airport often reports a tarmac gridlock of private jets, Gulfstreams and Falcons; between 350 to 465 airliners attempted to land during this year’s event, according to local operators. This fleet dwarfs the air forces of most developed nations, including Australia, which has 288 aircraft in its Royal Air Force.