Secrets of how Anna Wintour woos tech industry’s big bucks for the Met Gala

nypost.com:

Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Gisele Bündchen, Kendall Jenner, Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift are all expected for the photo call on the Metropolitan Museum’s iconic stairs.But one star is bigger than all the othersFor it is queen Anna Wintour who wields the real power Monday and who will hold all those A-listers, not to mention the world’s biggest business movers and shakers, in her thrall.Over the past 30 years, the editor-in-chief of Vogue and Global Chief Content Officer of Condé Nast, has transformed the event from a relatively humble fundraiser for the Met’s costume exhibit — with tickets once costing around $1,000 — to New York City’s most important event of the season. “It’s through her hustle that she made this happen,” one attendee who has gone for decades told The Post. “If she didn’t do it no one could make it happen.” As with other well-placed sources for this story, he asked to withhold his name lest he fall from Wintour’s good graces.It is because of Wintour that billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg and Steve Schwarzman are eager to shell out $350,000 to buy a table.

And she spends a good deal of the entire year courting them.While Wintour is integrally involved in the planning — she approves every name on the approximately 600-person guest list and the seating arrangement — she has a coterie of assistants and associates to do initial rounds of outreach.Wintour’s own presence is said to be reserved for closing deals and reeling in the big fish — which, over the past few years, has meant tech.