Antitrust Regulation

“The moment that a company, an industry, wants to consolidate, needs to consolidate, is the moment regulators are most likely to stop them consolidating. And whereas the actual time when action would matter, like when it, when it's growing and a company is maki…”

“In antitrust regulation, you know how they'll stop two firms from joining because that will create a monopoly, but they don't really have a tool in the tool chest for stopping a company from just shutting down and stopping competing.”

“So the policy of blocking monopoly via company acquisition, which, you know, seems like common sense also means that you're blocking innovation entirely because they're going to find a way around it and they're going to kill the startup ecosystem.”

“If you want competition with those large companies from startups, Investors, say for example, I'm an investor who's gonna put a billion dollars into a company that might compete with one of the large tech companies. I'm only gonna put the billion dollars in if…”

“Competition conflicts, almost everything that we want to do here. Competition conflicts with privacy conflicts with everything else. You pick one.”

“Most of the antitrust and competition regulations were designed, sorry, in a pre-tech era, so they're somewhat obsolete today, and these tech companies just don't look anything like the traditional monopolies that we were used to, and so there's something ther…”

“I think the challenge here is, like, and I phrase this another way, that you kind of need to have a theory of, you know, competition law, or privacy law, or speech law, or something, and then you need to have, you know, a theory of harm. What is the problem th…”