Big Tech

“Big tech actually got this, you know, some of this language into the Biden administration executive order.”

“Big tech has been present in Washington, but big tech's interests are not only very different than kind of startup innovation, innovators' interests, but we think also kind of divergent from America's interest as a whole.”

“Look, if there's a unifying issue, there's basically two unifying issues in Washington. One is they don't like China and the other is they don't like big tech. And so, you know, this is a winnable war. Like, this is a winnable war on behalf of startups and ope…”

“So if you look at what big tech has been trying to do, they're trying, they're very worried about new competition to the point where they've taken upon themselves to go to Washington and try and outlaw their competitors.”

“Quite honestly, I mean, part of what's happening is big tech is against us. There, there's a, there's basically a lot of the political issues now are a civil war inside the tech industry where, The big tech companies are lobbying very aggressively for what the…”

“I suspect that for those reasons, it's something that The big tech companies will try, and we've seen Apple and Amazon and Google all dabble, but I think those experiments probably won't fit the way they want to build their company, and so I think they'll stay…”

“They only agree on two things. They only agree on big tech and China. This is the only two things they agree on, but they really agree on those things.”

“Most of what our founders are trying to disrupt is, is big tech.”

“Little tech is extraordinarily different from big tech, which is extraordinarily different from the academic communities.”

“What we realized was, well, they're not always a hundred percent aligned with what's going on with the big tech folks.”

“I, by the way, Brian would take the other side of your argument that the big labs or big tech will win an app generation. I think they just lack the focus.”

“For labs certainly for big tech, and perhaps increasingly for labs, the priorities get set in their promo committee, always. And if you're a PM, and it's always the sort of mid-career PMs, and I've been one of these, and you, like, the incentives are always to…”

“I think there are a set of products that labs are just culturally not set up and big tech not set up to go after. You think about launching, you know, a companion product at Google that may disagree with you, that may have sexual innuendo in it. Like these are…”