Ullyot: Regulators reflexively force new tech into legacy regulatory boxes
Ted Ullyot · a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech · Jan 2, 2019 · at 11:36
Ted Ullyot, Andreessen Horowitz policy partner, explains how well-intentioned regulatory agencies instinctively default to legacy rules when encountering novel technology.
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“They're going to try to channel a new technology into an existing box to impose existing regulations, whereas what we and most entrepreneurs want to see is, hey, it's still early days in this technology. Don't jump in and assume that this is, that, that, that this technology is going to evolve in this way or that we're not going to be able to solve this problem or that your old system is going to be better than what we could offer.”
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