Big Tech

“The big companies that have Distribution and data and business models, they generally just get more profitable, but that's about it.”

“Everyone's okay with this because it allows them to argue that they don't control I think any of these, you know, it allows them to argue their sphere of control is smaller than it kind of actually is”

“The companies have way more resources than the government to just continuously open new fronts. That then the regulators have to chase them on, right? So outside of extreme actions, it's clearly the game everyone's gotten wise to.”

“The reality is, if any of these companies light even a hundred billion dollars on fire, Right. For downside protection of missing something, it's worth it to them.”

“I think the M&A environment is going to be constrained due to our current FTC slash the more global regulatory viewpoint on whether they want M&A to happen or big tech to get bigger.”

“And what we do know is that more and more and more regulation of big tech equals less and less and less acquisition of small tech.”

“And what we do know is that more and more and more regulation of big tech equals less and less and less acquisition of small tech. Which results in the complete and total freezing of the innovation ecosystem of Silicon Valley.”

“It doesn't make sense for anyone else, like one of the big, you know, the big tech companies to have a competitive version of this because it's, they're not, and inherently it has to be open source. It has to be distributed. And so that's the big open cloud ad…”

“There's truly oppositional research teams inside each company that I've now heard about for probably five to 10 times, like for different stories and companies that have been planted by the other. And it's like the nastiest PR setting I've seen in all of tech.…”