PM Lee’s Tour In San Francisco – Here Are All The Photos Taken During His Trip!
Jacky Yap
Most of you might have heard of this already, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spent the past few days on a working trip at San Francisco.
As part of the visit to San Francisco, PM met:
Governor of California Jerry Brown
Tesla CEO and SpaceX CEO/CTO Elon Musk
Apple CEO Tim Cook
Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Singaporeans residing in the San Francisco Bay Area
In case you missed it, here are all the photos of taken during his trip:
PM Lee going for a spin in Google’s self-driving car. PM: “It was a very smooth ride” Image Credit: FacebookPM Lee with Eric Schmidt and Sundar Pichai. PM: “They gave me a print of the winning doodle from the 2015 Singapore Doodle 4 Google competition. The doodle was done by an 8-year-old boy, Moh Journ Hadyn, from Beacon Primary School.” Image Credit: FacebookPM Lee chatting with Singaporeans working at Google. PM: “Many of them are engineers, and we talked about how we must make engineering more attractive as a career in Singapore.” Image Credit: FacebookPM Lee getting a tour of the Tesla Factory, where Tesla cars are built from scratch. PM: “It is a huge space — 500,000 sq m, depending more on robots than workers.” Image Credit: FacebookPM Lee with Apple CEO Tim Cook. Image Credit: FacebookPM Lee with Mark Zuckerberg. PM Lee: “Mark Zuckerberg gave me a nice cube with photos from my Facebook page etched on the sides.” Image Credit: FacebookMark Zuckerberg: “It was an honor to host Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore at Facebook HQ today. The Prime Minister is one of the only world leaders who knows how to code. To recognize his technical skills, we gave the PM this artwork designed at Facebook etched with lines from a computer program he wrote. Coding can be useful — no matter what your job is!”PM Lee: “Leaving a mark on the Facebook wall.”PM Lee: “Met Singaporeans working in Facebook. What do they miss about Singapore? Our food!”PM Lee trying out the Oculus Toybox Demo.PM Lee: “The Singapore family in San Francisco. They include students, working professionals and families. Some flew in from out of state for the Chinese New Year Reception and lohei.”PM Lee: “Lohei with Singaporean tech professionals. Happy 人日 to all who are celebrating it at home!”PM Lee: “A dialogue with Singaporean tech professionals in SF. Some are working with established companies, while others have their own startups. They were eager to know what is happening in Singapore, especially on the tech front. So I shared with them our plans and hopes for the #SmartNation project.”PM Lee: “Discussing tech trends over lunch with Todd Park (Technology Advisor to the White House), Brian Koo (Formation Group), John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media) and Nicole Wong (Senior Advisor at Albright-Stonebridge Group). “
Of course, other than work, PM didn’t forget to still have breakfast with his wife, Ho Ching.
PM Lee: “Buying breakfast for HC and me. Our kids (who had lived in SF) recommended this stall at the farmers’ market. My ham and cheese croissant was good!”
