Federal Trade Commission
also referred to as: ftc
10 statements across 9 episodes · 1 bullish · 7 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jan 31, 2022 by Roger Ehrenberg · said 42 times in 21 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Rory O'Driscoll (13), Roger Ehrenberg (5), Keith Rabois (3), Arvind Narayanan (3), Scott Galloway (2), William Hockey (1), Miles Dieffenbach (1), Mamoon Hamid (1)
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2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Groq’s $20BN NVIDIA Deal | Why Sam Altman Doesn’t Care About Dilution & Invisible Unemployment 2026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 24 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Miles Dieffenbach: Inside Carnegie Mellon’s $4BN Endowment & The Math Behind DPI, TVPI, Illiquidity · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Cem Sertoglu: Lessons from the Greatest Venture Investment in European History | E1228 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2022 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: How Startup Valuations, Fund Deployment Cycles, M&A and IPO Markets Will All Change in This New Market, Where Will The Biggest Crunch Be, When Is The Right Time To Be Aggressive vs Conservative with Roger Ehrenberg, Founding Partner @ IA Ventures
- William Hockey: How I Founded Plaid; The Ultimate Cold Email Tip; Hiring Lessons | 20VC #955 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC: What Happens To Growth Rounds in this New Environment? Where is the Funding Crunch? How Does This Impact M&A and Going Public? How do Crossover Funds Respond? What Does it Mean For Early Stage and more with Eric Liaw, General Partner @ IVP
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
Everything said about Federal Trade Commission, oldest first
Jan 31, 2022 bearish
Ehrenberg: FTC regulatory scrutiny will block FAANG M&A acquisitions
“I'm not sure the FTC is going to let those deals happen. So that adds a curveball in M&A that we have not had easily in a generation, which is this very, very restrictive regulatory environment where a bunch of the logical buyers, the FAANGs, for instance, are…”
Apr 8, 2022 negative
Liaw: Regulatory fear has chilled M&A for Meta, Google, Amazon, and Apple
“I think that probably the bigger challenge is for a lot of the biggest mega cap tech companies, fear of regulation and regulatory authority intervention is probably causing a lot of them to say, this is probably not worth our time, right? So it's kind of a fun…”
Jan 12, 2024 neutral
Rabois: FTC's Adobe-Figma challenge was standard antitrust enforcement
“Figma in some ways was easier case for the government in the FTC, which has been very aggressive than many other cases. You know, Figma Is competitive with Adobe's products. Like at the end of the day, that's not like a stretch where the FCC has been taking so…”
Feb 19, 2024
Ehrenberg: A Trump presidency would ease FTC antitrust policy and unlock M&A
“Yes, certainly with a different head of the FTC, it's, I mean, the pendulum has swung all the way in the other direction. I think you could argue that antitrust was extremely weak for a generation, and now it's swung all the way in the other direction, so I wo…”
Aug 28, 2024 negative
Narayanan: Oligopoly of tech giants dominating AI models is serious risk
“That might happen. I think that's a very serious possibility, and I think this is actually one area where regulators should be paying attention. You know, what does this mean for market concentration, antitrust, and so forth?”
Oct 21, 2024 negative
Hamid: FTC and Lina Khan did not block the Adobe-Figma deal
“I don't think, ah, a lot of us put a lot of the blame on Lena Khan, poor Lena Khan because, you know, in our own experience, that's not, that was not the issue for Adobe Figma. It wasn't Lena, ah, or the FTC, ah, there were other issues. So I think it's broadl…”
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Jul 17, 2025 negative
Jul 17, 2025 bearish
Oct 30, 2025 negative
O'Driscoll: FTC's block of the Amazon-Roomba deal was absurd and destructive
“And the FTC led by Lena Kahn chose to block that deal because I think Benedict Evans said in his place because of an insipid monopoly in the house vacuum cleaner marketplace, very tongue in cheek, right? It was an absurd decision at the time. It only got more …”