Hey guys, I'm Sagar and Jetty, and I'm Marshall Cosloth. Welcome back to the Realignment.

This week we're excited to bring you our conversation about the populist left and the populist

rights growing concerns about technology with Matt Stolar and Zach Graves. Matt is a fellow with

the Open Market's Institute, where he studies the threat of concentration and monopoly power in

our economy. He is the author of a new book, Goliath, the 100 year war between monopoly power

and populism, which will be released in October. Zach is the head of policy at the Lincoln Network,

an organization which is focused on bridging the gap between Washington DC and Silicon Valley.

Over the last few years, we've seen a growing backlash against Silicon Valley tech companies

from the left and from the right. There are congressional inquiries into Facebook and Google,

the Department of Justice is examining antitrust concerns in technology, and debates about the

ethics of cooperation with the US and Chinese militaries have taken on a lot of new relevance.

For a long time, there's a narrative among policy makers that the success of tech companies

like Uber and Airbnb, along with the adoption of extra governmental cryptocurrencies, left government

in the backseat. As any tech CEO facing congressional hearings and subpoenas now knows,

though, that's very much not the case today. This all seems to be driven by a negative change

in attitude towards technology companies, which are seen by some as monopolies and malign actors.

As the fast-growing and most innovative sector of our economy, Big Tech must learn to navigate

these new Washington power dynamics. When we talk with Matt and Zach, we cover the origins of

the Big Tech backlash, whether focusing on bias accusations against social media and search

companies as productive, the role that tech will play in a great power competition between the US

and China, and whether or not tech company innovations have played a constructive role in the

American economy. Let's dive in.

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