Saga and Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

This week we brought Keith for Boy, General Partner at the Venture Capital for Founders

Fund on the podcast. Keith's an outspoken conservative, which is a particularly controversial

place to be in in a Silicon Valley that's increasingly divided over politics.

Keith's been an executive PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square, and he's invested in DoorDash,

Stripe, and founded the Real Estate Platform Open Door.

Overall, it was a great discussion with Keith. We hit on a lot of different things.

Started off with the Vice President of the Bay, where Keith actually was a former clerk

on the Federal Judiciary, so we talked a lot about packing the courts.

He thinks it's a terrible political and policy decision, but for a lot of interesting

reasons, so you're going to like that part. But then we move on to some more broader things,

which are touching markets, Silicon Valley, the investor community, which is China, the

relationship between the US and China, the business community, how people in Silicon

Valley are thinking about investing and having Chinese money in their own companies.

We talked about why he opposes government antitrust efforts in the tech space.

This I actually think is one of the best parts of the conversation because Keith, I mean,

a lot of times we have people on, we have experts on who give us like a policy reason why

something would happen. Well, this is one of the people who would actually be affected

by that policy. And frankly, it gives one of the best articulations that I've ever heard

about antitrust, about the way the adventure capital itself works, which I think is sorely

missing amongst a lot of the policy making community. And overall, I thought he gave a

very good case for the tech industry to skeptics on the right. So look, I think we, you know,

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