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The Realignment

235 | Mike Solana Returns: A Heretical View of Silicon Valley

The Realignment

The Realignment

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

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Mike Solana, author of the Pirate Wires Substack, VP at Founders Fund, and newly appointed Lincoln Network board member, joins The Realignment to discuss debates over speech on tech platforms, Elon Musk, how Silicon Valley's wealth and power differs from the Gilded Age, and his vision of government's role in society.

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Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

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Greetings from Miami. I'm here with the Lincoln Network. That's Network Not Project.

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Team for Miami Tech Week. Before we get into the day's show I wanted to kick off

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thoughts or requests for us as we end the soft launch of the subscription at the

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end of the month and go all in, email us at reallantupod.geoa.com or reply or

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comment on today's sub-stack. Now for today's episode I'm speaking with

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return guest Mike Solana. Mike's the author of the excellent pirate wires

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sub-stack. I'm actually a very happy customer. And he's also a VP at Founders

1:29.2

Fund where he puts on events like last January's heredicon. I didn't quite

1:33.7

stick the landing on this question. So when I asked him at the start of the

1:36.5

episode, what's his least heretical thought? I was basically hinting at the

1:40.9

fact that he puts on an event like heredicon, which is dedicated to thoughts

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