Lauren Thomas
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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Within what we've seen in tech specifically is a lot of these CEOs, I think, have realized under the Trump administration really helps to have a line into Washington.
And maybe that means having a line in directly to Trump.
Mark Zuckerberg, for example, has been spending more time with Trump and down in D.C.,
Whereas under the Biden administration, you had Lena Kahn and the FTC was very anti-big tech.
It's early days for sure, because a lot of these deals have just been announced.
But the one thing that I hear repeatedly from advisors and especially people down in D.C.
is this idea that the Trump administration is much more open to remedies.
And effectively, that's if you have
company A and company B, they want to merge and you go down to DC and you're meeting with the FTC and the FTC or whatever agency will say, okay, you can do that deal, but you just, you need to sell off this little piece of your business.
We think that that might be an issue or there's too much overlap there.
So they propose kind of a remedy or solution where you might have to do something here, something there, sell a piece of your business in one part of the country where there could be too much of a monopoly, but then they'll let your deal go through.
So
There is a general understanding that the Trump administration is much more in favor of letting the deals work their way through the system and presenting kind of these smaller solutions to get there.
Certainly in tech it feels that way, and maybe consumer too in other industries.
It gets to a point where
It's no longer efficient maybe or you're no longer as profitable or able to make money operating at a smaller scale.
And so companies do face this moment of reckoning.
Either we join forces with this other company to remain relevant and to be able to keep operating and to pay our bills on time and pay our workers.
Or you risk falling behind.
And it's very timely.
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