Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on today's show is Danny Kreidon, the managing editor of TechCrunch. Danny's been a foreign correspondent and Fulbright

scholar and Seoul, as well as a venture capitalist in Boston and Palo Alto. These days, he's living in

Brooklyn, covering technology, power, and startups for tech crunch.

His recent article in City Journal's New York City-Raboran issue, Keep New York Tech Strong,

notes that New York City is perhaps the world's most technologically driven urban economy.

And he charts a strategy for the city's would-be leaders to keep it that way.

Danny, thanks very much

for joining us. Brian, thanks you so much for hosting. New York, as you note in this essay, is the

hub of a number of major industries, finance, health care, media, the arts. What you write,

the technology is in many ways the foundation for the city's supremacy in these

areas. And of course, as you also note in this essay, technology in the tech industry was one of the

few to really come through the pandemic in pretty decent shape in the city. And it was a benefit to the

city during this awful period. I was wondering if you could

elaborate a little bit on just what the tech economy looks like in New York and how it does

kind of provide the foundation for these other major industrial sectors of the city's economy. People

don't always think of New York City as a tech hub,

but it really has become one. I think that's absolutely right, Brian. I mean, when you think of New York

City, you think of, I think of tourism, right? You think of Broadway. You think of the museums. You

think of the arts and the culture and the restaurants. But the reality is the foundation of New York's economy today, New York City's economy, is the technology industry. And that comes

in a couple of different flavors. I mean, there's obviously tech as in Google, Facebook,

and the big technology companies we all know and heard about. It also comes in the flavor of

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