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The Realignment

Ep. 91: Swati Mylavarapu and Matt Rogers, Reckoning with Silicon Valley’s Power

The Realignment

The Realignment

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

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe to The Realignment Substack: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Check out our Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Swati Mylavarapu and Matt Rogers, co-founders of Incite, join The Realignment to discuss Silicon Valley after Trump, campaign finance reform, the future of the Democratic Party, and the challenge of fixing broken systems when one benefits from the status quo.

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0:00.0

Saga and Marshall here, welcome back to The Realignment.

0:08.8

I find the process of donating, it's a part of what's called your speech,

0:14.8

but the reality is why should our speech be working

0:17.1

with one another people's speech?

0:18.4

And that's the fundamental problem with this system.

0:21.2

And I don't like the laws that we have.

0:25.1

And if we don't exercise our speech,

0:27.4

we end up not having a seat at this table at all.

0:41.2

Hey everyone, we have an awesome episode today.

0:43.6

We are speaking with Matt and Swati, the founders of Insight,

0:47.2

which is a combination of adventure and capital firm,

0:50.4

a political activism organization, and a philanthropic venture.

0:54.5

The two of them are power players in Silicon Valley.

0:58.4

Swati is a former venture capitalist and employee at Square.

1:03.7

And importantly, for this conversation, she also went to Harvard

1:06.8

and Oxford of Peabootagege and played a leading role in financing his campaign.

1:11.8

No matter what happens, going into the Joe Biden administration,

1:14.7

she is sure to play a major role in forming and shaping the future of the party.

1:21.0

The same time too, Matt is incredibly impressive as well.

1:23.8

He was on the founding team at Apple that came up with the iPhone,

1:27.7

and he went on to co-found Nest, which later sold to Google.

1:31.5

The two of them are at the nexus of every single trend this podcast

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