David Mack

Director of Public Affairs Campaigns, Meta · 1 appearance on the record.

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David Mack is an executive who directs legislative, regulatory, and public affairs campaigns across major technology and emerging industry platforms. He previously served as Senior Director of Public Affairs at Lyft and as Senior Vice President of Policy and Public Affairs at Eaze.

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Insight

Mack: Corporate lobbying fails unless companies mobilize local constituents

“In the political process, companies advocating for themselves have very little power, self-interested, not very sympathetic. You have to find a way to make that connection with the constituents, and unless you can do that in a meaningful way, you're not going …”

David Mack Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:45 a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments

Insight

Mack: Political consultants prioritize relationships with electeds over paying clients

“The most important thing you remember though about the policy folks, God bless them all, is they have two clients. One client are the folks that are Paying them and engaging with them, so that would be us. The other client, and perhaps more valuable, always mo…”

David Mack Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:16 a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments

Insight

Mack: Companies should split government relations into policy and public affairs

“You should have your policy team that owns the relationships with elected officials. Negotiates the final details of what the law will be, and then you'd have a public affairs team, which is building the campaign and the atmosphere around those negotiations in…”

David Mack Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:13 a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments

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Mack: Lyft adds $750M in local spending and saves 100M commute hours

“We add three quarters of a billion dollars in local spending to communities. We've cut a hundred million hours off people's commutes, etc.”

David Mack Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:43 a16z Podcast | The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| The Case Study of Lyft and Local Governments	Jan 2, 2019	5m

David Mack

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