Saudi Arabia's millennial crown prince got a rare tour of the inside of Apple's new $5 billion campus
The prince's Silicon Valley trip started with a visit to Google headquarters, where he met founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Only Brin is in this photo, though.
Current Google CEO Sundar Pichai also said hi.
MbS also took the time to say hi to some rank-and-file Googlers.
Then MbS met with some high-profile investors. Here he's speaking with Peter Thiel, who was famously Facebook's first big investor. Thiel currently sits on the board of data analytics company Palantir.
But Thiel wasn't the only venture capitalist he met with. Here is the prince with Vinod Kholsa, of Khosla Ventures, Sam Altman, of Y Combinator, and Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir. Andreessen Horowitz founder Marc Andreessen was also there, according to a tweet from the Saudi embassy.
According to the Saudi Embassy, they were discussing "potential partnerships."
Then it was off to Apple.
The circular design of Apple Park gives the world leaders a great place to walk and talk.
Maybe Tim Cook is pointing out the 37 varieties of fruit trees planted at Apple's new campus.
At times during the tour, Cook looked nonplussed.
But he's in a better mood in this picture.
The Saudi delegation had a formal meeting with Apple's officials, which included COO Jeff Williams, and two of the women on Apple's executive team. — Lisa Jackson, VP of the company's environmental policies, and retail SVP Angela Ahrendts.
The delegation photographer took this rare spy shot inside Apple Park.
The prince may own the world's most expensive house, which cost $300 million, but Apple Park cost $5 billion, and the views from the fourth floor are stunning.
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