Tommy Vietor

I've...

We've crossed paths, that's why.

You guys have been tweeting at each other?

You know, look, we all have our weaknesses, and that's one of mine.

It does feel like, though, there was a time... Look, I was in the Obama administration in the kind of 08 through 2013 phase of like...

There was a lot of excitement around tech.

There was a lot of cooperation between the administration and tech industry, probably too much to our discredit in the Obama world.

Now it seems like a lot of the tech industry guys are like, gloves are off.

fuck this, we're battling regulation, right?

Like Andreessen Horowitz, according to the New York Times, has made more than $115 million worth of disclosed federal contributions to candidates or entities working on the upcoming midterms.

That's like,

50 mil for an AI PAC, another 47 million for a crypto super PAC.

Does that worry you?

Does that disgust you that this one VC firm can dump 100 million to advocate for its book of portfolio companies?

But I feel like we're just so far from over-regulating social media companies.

I mean, Australia is banning accounts for kids under 16, right?

I mean, we're doing nothing.

You've criticized Governor Gavin Newsom for focusing too much on trolling Donald Trump.

I think you said he made a quote, blind leap into meme land.

Gavin and Trump have kind of a Ross and Rachel, will they, won't they, frenemies, antagonistic thing going.