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“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…”

“A few months ago, the FTC finalized a rule that would ban non-compete clauses in the vast majority of employment contracts.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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 …”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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.”

“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…”