Obama Plugs Entrepreneurs With Democratic Ties as Cuba Opens
The president meets with the founders of some of the country's most successful startups.
US President Barack Obama makes a statement at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2015
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The founders of some of America’s hottest startups met with President Barack Obama at the White House Monday as he prepares for a trip to Africa to promote entrepreneurship.
Executives from companies including Airbnb Inc., Theranos Inc. and Kind LLC, some of them contributors to Democratic politics, will be asked to help raise as much as $1 billion to finance startup companies in developing parts of the world. Obama plans to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi in July.