Homebrew VC Hunter Walk Talks Twitter, TikTok, and Tech in the Time of Biden

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

During Donald Trump’s presidency, tech products became explicitly political. Operatives from both sides picked apart their algorithms and features, examining how they shaped society’s beliefs. And the companies, meanwhile, made choices about what parts of the administration they’d work with. Hunter Walk, who spent nearly a decade at Google and is now a partner at Homebrew, has watched the evolutions firsthand. He joins the Big Technology Podcast to discuss tech’s impact on politics and where it goes next under a Joe Biden presidency.

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0:00.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast.
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0:19.9	Okay, so we are recording.
0:22.5	Do you still want to do that thing
0:24.3	where you ask me some questions at the end?
0:26.3	Yeah, sure, whatever.
0:27.2	I got plenty of questions to ask you,
0:29.2	so one way or the other.
0:47.5	Okay. Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:51.3	Well, a lot has gone on over the past few days, definitely in the past few weeks.
0:54.9	And joining us to discuss it, we're going to have a great conversation,
1:01.4	break it all down, is Hunter Walk. He's a partner at Homebrew VC. Welcome, Hunter. Hey, thanks for having me. Count legal votes only. Legal votes only. Is that the Friday theme? That's the Friday theme, right?
1:11.1	Friday theme is legal votes only. Yeah, we're recording this on Friday, what's today, November 6th, and this will go up on Wednesday, the following Wednesday.
1:19.4	So by the time this thing goes live, I'm fairly certain that Joe Biden is going to be declared the president-elect, if not a lot of people are going to have
1:27.9	considerable amount of egg on their face. But it definitely looks like it's going that way,
1:31.5	probably by this afternoon. I'm excited about that. So how have your past few days gone?
1:37.1	Have you just been like sitting and, you know, refreshing Twitter consistently?
1:40.8	I have watched zero video this week. I have not had to hear any pundit speak. And surprisingly,
1:48.5	I've been going more on the raw data, right? So there was that GitHub. So you're refreshing
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