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Hoffman: FTC Chair Lina Khan's tech M&A crackdown concentrates Big Tech power
“You know, she misunderstands, like, kind of the role of how to stop the aggregation of power in large tech companies, because she says, well, if she stops large tech companies from buying small startups, what that means is venture capitalists, like myself, and…”
Hoffman: US export controls are right response to Chinese mercantilism
“And I do think that the, it's the right thing for the U S to be doing, given that China is generally taking a kind of a mercantilist competitive position. And I think that's something that the U S and other you know, kind of countries Europe and everything els…”
Hoffman: Precautionary regulation causes Europe to lag the US and China
“The problem with most people's default modes of regulation, including a lot of regulators and including a lot of European regulators is you say, well, our job is to protect bad things from happening. And by the way, the simplest way to do that is to prevent an…”