Hi, I'm Matt Spence. I'm a partner in Andreessen Horowitz and welcome to the A16Z podcast.

We have today a conversation with Senator Kamal Harris, which was recorded at our D.C. Policy Summit live in May of this year.

Senator, thank you very much for making time to join us today.

You're very welcome.

Kamala Harris has devoted her career to public safety and civil rights. She made history as the

first African American and the first woman elected as the Attorney General of California. And she is

only the second African American woman in history to be elected to the United States Senate.

We'll talk a little more about her careers of prosecutors

we get into this, but I do want to add,

this may not be clear from her work in the Senate.

She is a devout X-Men fan, and she is an excellent cook.

Senator Harris, before entering the Senate,

you are a career prosecutor.

You prosecuted everything from violent crimes

to human trafficking, to international criminal cartels.

And then you most recently served as California's Attorney General, which is the chief law enforcement

officer of the sixth largest economy in the world.

Yes.

We have a view that some of the most important tech policy issues are actually not made in Washington at all, but are actually made at the stay and local level. They're made by governors, attorney generals, and mayors who are actually some of the most important tech policymakers. And that's really what you were at the center of. And so when you were representing California and Silicon Valley, you really had a front row seat to see some of the new technologies rolling out.

So that's everything from drones to ride sharing to driverless cars to digital currency.

How did you tackle and think about these challenges of updating existing rules and regulations to new

technologies that lawmakers might not have even have thought about when they wrote some of these

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