President Javier Milei’s second day in Silicon Valley featured meetings with Google and Apple CEOs Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook, as well as a speech that sparked controversy at Stanford University on Wednesday. The president is in the midst of a five-day trip to San Francisco to meet with businesspeople from the technological sector. 

Milei first met with Pichai at Google headquarters in Mountain View. Following the encounter, the government posted a picture of the president and Pichai, alongside the rest of their teams. The Google CEO gifted Milei a traditional Google Doodle with the image of tango legend Astor Piazzolla.  

“Various potential collaboration projects were discussed during the meeting, including the development of technological infrastructure and improvement of the population’s technological skills,” the government stated in a press release. 

Later that day, Milei met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the company headquarters in Cupertino, California. 

In the evening, the president spoke at Stanford University and caused controversy when, addressing poverty, he said that people will “figure out a way not to starve to death” and that there was no need to intervene because “in the end someone will solve” the issue. 

Milei kicked off his round of meetings with tech entrepreneurs on Tuesday by getting together for an hour and a half with Open AI Executive Director Sam Altman, the businessman behind ChatGTP. The president later posted a picture of Altman and himself on X, saying that they talked about the “enormous possibilities a libertarian Argentina offers.”

This is the president’s seventh trip overseas since taking office in December.