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Lina Khan

Chair, Federal Trade Commission · 0 appearances on the record.

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Lina Khan serves as the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. She is known for her active approach to enforcing federal antitrust regulations.

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Everything Lina Khan said on All-In that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Lina Khan Jan 22, 2022 ▶ 23:49 E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more

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 on All-In. 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)

Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Keith Rabois Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 1:12:35 Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
Opinion
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.”
Jason Calacanis Jul 14, 2023 ▶ 48:05 E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
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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…”
David Sacks Apr 16, 2022 ▶ 26:49 E76: Elon vs. Twitter
Insight
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.”
Reid Hoffman Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 33:04 In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Opinion
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…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 14, 2023 ▶ 36:11 E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
Opinion
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.”
David Sacks Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 28:19 E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI
Opinion
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.”
David Sacks Jan 22, 2022 ▶ 39:56 E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
Opinion
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.”
Reid Hoffman Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 32:50 In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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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…”
David Sacks Jun 18, 2021 ▶ 10:08 E36: New FTC Chair, breaking up big tech, government silent spying, Jon Stewart, wildfires & more
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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.”
Ben Shapiro Apr 4, 2025 ▶ 1:33:41 DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias
Insight
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.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 26:15 E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI
Prediction Held up
Sacks: FTC Chair Lina Khan will not be recused regarding Amazon
“There's no way this is gonna fly. There's no way she's gonna get recused”
David Sacks Jul 3, 2021 ▶ 1:12:17 E38: Bestie brawl, Robinhood's $70M fine & S-1, Delta variant, next gen candidates & more

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2022 14 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
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Played on the show (1)

Episodes where a recording of Lina Khan was played rather than Lina taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.

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E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reaction Jan 22, 2022 1m clip played
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