100 | David Sacks: Recalling Gavin Newsom, U.S.-China Relations, and How to Protect Speech Online

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Subscribe to The Realignment Substack: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Check out our Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment David Sacks, co-founder and general partner at Craft Ventures and cohost of The All-In Podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss the case for recalling California Governor Gavin Newsom, the tech industry’s future in China, and the future of online speech.

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0:00.0	Marshall and Saga here welcome back to the Realignment.
0:04.0	I agree that breaking up big tech companies won't solve the problem because I assume that
0:15.2	we would break them up along the lines of their business units, their products.
0:19.6	So, like take Amazon for example, if you...
0:23.4	So by the way, I still think we probably should break them up because they've just gotten
0:26.9	way too powerful and it would be probably...
0:31.4	And that benefit probably would be helpful but I don't think it's going to solve the speech
0:34.0	problem for this reason.
0:35.5	So you've got Amazon and you've got AWS.
0:37.7	Okay, you fork the cap tables, you've now got two cap tables.
0:41.7	It doesn't change anything.
0:42.7	You've got the same executives running these companies.
0:45.2	They make decisions the same way.
0:47.0	So you know, instead of having a speech cartel of five companies, you've now got a speech
0:51.6	cartel of ten companies.
0:52.9	It doesn't change anything.
0:54.2	The problem is fundamentally the cartel.
0:56.2	The cartel is what needs to be busted up.
1:05.5	We have an awesome show today.
1:06.9	We have brought David Sacks, the founder of Craft Ventures.
1:11.6	He was a Yammer, PayPal.
1:14.5	He's a Silicon Valley investor and you probably know him from the All-In podcast with
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