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Leah Nylen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
174 total appearances

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

power in the tech companies but so much wealth if you look back in the 1980s and 90s like you didn't have these one or two runaway companies at the top of the you know stock exchange indexes you had you know lots of big companies that could be investing but now we have like one or two trillion dollar companies and everybody else is really lagging behind

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

Yeah.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

Yeah.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

Yeah.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

I mean, it was funny when Bloomberg did an interview with Donald Trump and they had mentioned that they wanted in any trust questions. They came to me and they were like, what should we ask Donald Trump? And I was like, well, ask him about the Google breakup. And what did he say when they asked him about the Google breakup? I don't know if we should break up Google. I was like, you know...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

I mean, it was funny when Bloomberg did an interview with Donald Trump and they had mentioned that they wanted in any trust questions. They came to me and they were like, what should we ask Donald Trump? And I was like, well, ask him about the Google breakup. And what did he say when they asked him about the Google breakup? I don't know if we should break up Google. I was like, you know...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

I mean, it was funny when Bloomberg did an interview with Donald Trump and they had mentioned that they wanted in any trust questions. They came to me and they were like, what should we ask Donald Trump? And I was like, well, ask him about the Google breakup. And what did he say when they asked him about the Google breakup? I don't know if we should break up Google. I was like, you know...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

I was like, I don't think you're actually going to get a coherent answer out of him on antitrust policy because he doesn't really concern himself with the intricacies of particular policies. Someone once described to me his philosophy is like he finds someone he trusts on a particular issue and he sort of delegates it to him. And that is true to an extent.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

I was like, I don't think you're actually going to get a coherent answer out of him on antitrust policy because he doesn't really concern himself with the intricacies of particular policies. Someone once described to me his philosophy is like he finds someone he trusts on a particular issue and he sort of delegates it to him. And that is true to an extent.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

I was like, I don't think you're actually going to get a coherent answer out of him on antitrust policy because he doesn't really concern himself with the intricacies of particular policies. Someone once described to me his philosophy is like he finds someone he trusts on a particular issue and he sort of delegates it to him. And that is true to an extent.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

He like delegates it until he like wants to stop delegating it. That's, I think, the conundrum of all Donald Trump policies is antitrust.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

He like delegates it until he like wants to stop delegating it. That's, I think, the conundrum of all Donald Trump policies is antitrust.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

He like delegates it until he like wants to stop delegating it. That's, I think, the conundrum of all Donald Trump policies is antitrust.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

And like, you know, for advisors or people in the government is like they can do their job and like do what they think is, you know, the best, you know, for a while until he sort of gets interested in an issue and then sort of he's going to try and take it over and they sort of have to do what he says. Yeah.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

And like, you know, for advisors or people in the government is like they can do their job and like do what they think is, you know, the best, you know, for a while until he sort of gets interested in an issue and then sort of he's going to try and take it over and they sort of have to do what he says. Yeah.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

And like, you know, for advisors or people in the government is like they can do their job and like do what they think is, you know, the best, you know, for a while until he sort of gets interested in an issue and then sort of he's going to try and take it over and they sort of have to do what he says. Yeah.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

I think it's still going to be a little bit of that. I mean, they obviously don't want Google to get bigger. They don't want Facebook to get bigger. Maybe they probably would have less problems with Amazon getting bigger. I can't really see the Trump administration having had problems with the iRobot deal, for example.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

I think it's still going to be a little bit of that. I mean, they obviously don't want Google to get bigger. They don't want Facebook to get bigger. Maybe they probably would have less problems with Amazon getting bigger. I can't really see the Trump administration having had problems with the iRobot deal, for example.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

I think it's still going to be a little bit of that. I mean, they obviously don't want Google to get bigger. They don't want Facebook to get bigger. Maybe they probably would have less problems with Amazon getting bigger. I can't really see the Trump administration having had problems with the iRobot deal, for example.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

I mean, that was a little bit of a novel theory that, you know, Lena Kahn's folks were pursuing. So I think that kind of dealmaking, particularly vertical type dealmaking, if you can make the argument that this is something that the tech giants are not doing, it's moving into another area of the economy. Yeah, maybe that's what we'll see happening.