Here's the who's who of business moguls descending on Sun Valley in rural Idaho for a weeklong summer camp for billionaires
Open AI CEO Sam Altman and Disney CEO Bob Iger are at Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley Conference. Elon Musk and Warren Buffett will not be in attendance.
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- The Allen & Co. Sun Valley Conference draws the ultrawealthy to Idaho for a weeklong retreat.
- The event allows business leaders to connect — and potentially strike some deals.
- Attendees include Open AI CEO Sam Altman, media heir Shari Redstone, and Disney CEO Bob Iger.
Investment firm Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley Conference is again drawing in the world's ultra-wealthy for a weeklong retreat in the idyllic Idaho wilderness from July 9 to July 13.
Often called the summer camp for billionaires, the conference has been held since the 1980s and provides CEOs and business leaders a chance to connect over outdoor activities and presentations on national security and geopolitics.
Sometimes, these leaders connect and create billion-dollar deals — like Disney's acquisition of ABC or Jeff Bezos' purchase of the Washington Post.
Although many well-known names have already made their way to the Sun Valley Lodge, some notable power players like Warren Buffett and Elon Musk will not be in attendance, Variety reported.
Here's who's already shown up.
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Redstone, who owned a majority stake in Paramount, agreed to sell her controlling shares to allow a merger between the flailing media company and Skydance.
"We're gonna save the world together!" Redstone said to reporters on Tuesday as she arrived, per Bloomberg's Michelle Davis.
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Altman has had a whirlwind couple of months at OpenAI, including some high-profile exits of two top AI safety researchers and a hacking scandal.
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Peltz, the 81-year-old billionaire and former Disney investor critical of Iger's leadership, waged a $70 million campaign to place himself on Disney's board. Peltz failed and sold off his shares.
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Tim Cook, who succeeded Apple's founder Steve Jobs as CEO in 2011, said last year that he hopes his successor will "come from within Apple."
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Sheryl Sandberg stepped down as Meta's COO in June 2022 and left the social media giant's board in January 2024.
The Harvard alumna tied the knot with former NBC News producer Tom Bernthal in August 2022, seven years after the death of her husband Dave Goldberg.
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Bobby Kotick left Activision Blizzard in December 2023, following Microsoft's acquisition of the company in October 2023. The Wall Street Journal reported in March that Kotick was thinking of buying TikTok.
In April, President Joe Biden signed a bill that would ban TikTok unless the social media platform's parent company, ByteDance, sold it.
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Eisner served as CEO between 1984 and 2005 before Iger stepped in and took over.
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Zaslav was also photographed chatting with Rob Manfred, Commissioner of Major League Baseball, outside the lodge.
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The GM CEO recently announced that the company would abandon its plan to be 100% electric and focus on hybrid vehicles.
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Diller, a known Democratic donor, recently joined many business leaders dismayed by President Joe Biden's debate performance. He's expressed that he would no longer support Biden's candidacy for president.
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The Palantir CEO recently made controversial remarks about Pro-Palestine protesters at Columbia, saying that they should be sent to North Korea.
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Robert Kraft, a frequent attendee, was seen in past conferences in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
The Columbia University alum and megadonor pulled his support for the Ivy League school after it became a hotbed of unrest and protests over Israel's war in Gaza.