Lina Khan
Chair, Federal Trade Commission · Chair, FTC. On 2 shows, 1 appearance, plus 1 compilation re-air not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Lina Khan serves as the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. She is known for actively challenging tech giants and regulating digital markets, M&A deals, and emerging artificial intelligence sectors.
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181said about them ↓ Everything Lina Khan said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Khan: Antitrust evolved from broad structural metrics to narrow short-term price effects
“And so the SA was a way to use Amazon as a way to tell a broader story about the history of our antitrust laws and how we had evolved from you know, Viewing this issue of dominance and monopolization through a broader prism and a broader understanding of the d…”
Khan: FTC Finalized Rule Banning Most Employment Non-Compete Clauses
“A few months ago, the FTC finalized a rule that would ban non-compete clauses in the vast majority of employment contracts.”
Lina Khan: Digital markets tip toward dominance, risking innovation without antitrust enforcement
“What we've seen instead over the last couple of decades is that digital markets are different. And in fact, they can lend themselves to tipping. It can actually become much more difficult to break in Once you have a firm that's become dominant and is protectin…”
Lina Khan: Microsoft antitrust action allowed Google, Amazon, and Facebook to flourish
“The reason that Microsoft was looking to elbow out Netscape was not because Netscape risked replacing it as the dominant operating system. It was because Netscape risked disintermediating it and making it irrelevant whether you were using Microsoft or somethin…”
Khan: Under 3% of Reported Deals Are Investigated by FTC and DOJ
“It's actually less than three percent of all deals that are reported to the FTC and DOJ that even get investigated, an even smaller component that ultimately get challenged in court.”
Khan: Selling to a dominant incumbent raises far more antitrust scrutiny
“If you're selling to the company that's already the monopolist in a particular market, that is more likely to raise issues than if it's, you know, selling to a company that doesn't really have a presence in the market.”
Khan: Big Tech consolidated because regulators allowed buyouts of nascent rivals
“Partly how we've gotten to the markets of today where you have, you know, five major players for the most part is because they were allowed to buy up some of these nascent competitors and, you know, lead to a market that was much more consolidated and much les…”
Khan: Open-weight AI models drive innovation by lowering startup costs
“I've spoken out in favor of open weight models and wanting to make sure that in as much as you have layers of the stack where there could be risks of depriving some of these companies of key inputs actually having open weight models can be just such a key driv…”
Khan: Uncompensated AI scraping threatens future investment in journalism
“Over the long term, if you allow this appropriation, one worry is that there's not going to be an incentive to invest in the production of information, in the production of robust and vigorous journalism, and so that's why getting that piece right is going to …”
Khan: Congress intended antitrust enforcers to intervene in early concentration
“There's also indication that Congress wanted enforcers not just to act when, you know, the third and fourth companies are merging or the first and second, but actually in the incipiency.”
Khan: Decades of Lax Antitrust Enforcement Drove Widespread Market Consolidation
“Over the last four decades, our markets had become much more consolidated primarily through waves of mergers and acquisitions which in part were permitted through a much more lax approach to antitrust laws and policing mergers.”
Khan: California Non-Compete Ban Drove Innovation by Diffusing Ideas Organically
“There's research suggesting that the non-enforceability of non-competes in California has actually been one of the drivers of so much innovation, because it's allowed this more organic diffusion of ideas in a way that's just been really, really healthy and Led…”
Khan: FTC focuses on healthcare and pharma to lower consumer costs
“I think at the end of the day, the way I measure impact is, are we addressing
The major problems that people face that are within our purview to fix.
And that's why we've been really focused on healthcare markets in particular, taking on hospital consolidation…”
Khan: America's Historical Pro-Competition Policy Drove Phenomenal Economic Growth
“And historically, America has chosen the path of more competition, and I believe that's what's contributed to just the phenomenal economic growth that we've seen and the birth of so many fantastic companies.”
Khan: Having 8-10 acquirers gives startups far better leverage and valuations
“Even if you want to sell a market in which you have, you know, eight or nine or 10 potential buyers is going to be better for the startup than a market where you just have one or two. Both in terms of your negotiating leverage, you know, the valuation you migh…”
The other half of the tape: Lina Khan's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 169 times in 57 episodes across the shows. 12 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 105David Sacks 26Chamath Palihapitiya 25Mark Cuban 5Ben Shapiro 4David Friedberg 3JD Vance 1
Statements about Lina Khan, by other people (12)
Raboy: Lina Khan's Yale academic paper on Amazon contained false data
“She published a paper that was false. Like, her whole claim to fame is this paper about Amazon. And the data in the Amazon, the data she used in the paper at Yale was false.”
Calacanis: FTC Chair Lina Khan is punishing tech for being successful
“I think she is absolutely doing Biden's bidding. With an anti-tech, anti-wealth creation, anti-capitalism, frankly, pro-union punishment. I think this is punishment for tech being too successful.”
Sacks: Biden FTC would allow Big Tech to buy Twitter over Musk
“I think this administration does not want to see Twitter become a free speech company again. And so the political winds will blow towards letting, I think, Twitter be acquired by a big tech company, even if it means big tech gets bigger. Wait a second. So I th…”
Hoffman: FTC blocking tech M&A quells venture capital investment
“Her theory is you gotta prevent the aggregation of power, so you gotta fight every acquisition of note. And the problem, of course, is that actually quells venture capital investment.”
Chamath: FTC under Lina Khan relies on emotionally reactive litigation
“I think the Lena Conn thing is very different. I think this was a nuanced argument that the SEC made that required a highly sophisticated interpretation of securities law, and you're supposed to go to the courts for that. I think what the FTC has been doing is…”
Sacks: Lina Khan's focus on bigness takes a meat cleaver to tech
“What Lena Khan has done is just go after quote bigness, which just means stopping these companies from doing anything that would make them bigger. The approach is just not surgical enough. It's basically like taking a meat cleaver to the industry.”
Sacks: FTC Chair Lina Khan is shoehorning a union agenda into antitrust
“What they were trying to do there is they were shoehorning a union agenda into clean tech. And I think that's what Lena Horne was doing in that clip. She was shoehorning a union agenda into antitrust law.”
Hoffman: Lina Khan did good work on price cartels and non-competes
“She's done a good job on the price cartel. She did a good job on the anti-competes, both of which I think are very, very good for, you know, Competitive markets.”
Sacks: Lina Khan's FTC confirmation will hyper-politicize Big Tech regulation
“And I think what we're in for over the next few years is potentially a hyper politic politicization Of big tech markets. I think these 21 Republicans might soon feel like the dog who caught the bumper in the sense that, yes, they're finally going to have the r…”
Shapiro: An economic downturn will make both parties favor Lina Khan
“And that's how you get a populist uprising on the right. And what you end up with is a horseshoe theory politics where both parties are in favor of Lena Kahn. Right. Both parties are in favor of Lena Kahn.”
Chamath: Effective corporate regulation requires deep internal business experience
“If you're going to deconstruct companies to make them better, you should be steeped in how companies actually work, which typically only comes from working inside of companies.”
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2026 8 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- All-In's 2026 Predictions
- The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
- Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel
- Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It
- Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 27 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias
- Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- 2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
- OpenAI's Code Red, Sacks vs New York Times, New Poverty Line?
- Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
- IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
- Tucker Carlson: Rise of Nick Fuentes, Paramount vs Netflix, Anti-AI Sentiment, Hottest Takes
- Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 64 mentions in 17 episodes 4 per episode
- In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
- JD Vance | All-In Summit 2024
- Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
- Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
- GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
- The All-In Holiday Spectacular
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 42 mentions in 10 episodes 4 per episode
- E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
- E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI
- E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more
- E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
- E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
- E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
- All-In Summit: Tobi Lutke on consumer spending, teams, Amazon, AI, and more
- E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 14 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
- E76: Elon vs. Twitter
- E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more
- E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
- E50: Crypto investing deep dive, Facebook's whistleblower fallout, Chappelle's new special & more
- E45: Theranos & VC fraud risks, China bans video games, Texas SB8, Apple app store, CA fires, Rogan
- E42: China's tech crackdown, CRISPR breakthrough, practical climate change solutions & more
- E41: Vaccine policy, Big Tech, DeepMind's latest breakthrough, wealth creation, opportunity & more
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
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 NO PRIORSLEDGER | Chair, FTC | 1 | 14 | 100% 2/2 | full record on No Priors → |
| ALL-INLEDGER | Chair, Federal Trade Commission | 0 +1 | 1 | — | full record on All-In → |