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The Times Tech Podcast

Investing in US's Dmitri Mehlhorn: “The business of making Trump a one-term president”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dmitri Mehlhorn, head of Investing in US, to talk about the business of unseating Trump (3:45), what he saw as an existential threat (8:25), linking up with Reid Hoffman (10:50), the problem he sought to solve (13:00), investing hundreds of millions to make Trump a one-term president (15:55), the importance of Big Data in politics (20:15), piloting a new approach in Virginia (22:30), upsetting the apple cart (25:40), being seen as “knife-fighters” (30:20), what happens now (33:40), good v evil (40:30), the key investments (43:20), the importance of the web (46:40), his biggest mistake (49:50), winning without becoming what you are trying to defeat (56:20), the death of truth (59:40), Silicon Valley’s conflict between backing Biden while battling against the impending antitrust crackdown (1:01:00), Zuckerberg’s major role in the election (1:04:30), and the future of media (1:07:15).

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Yo, technology. What is it all about? Having this criminal, crime family, malignant narcissist in the most powerful job in the world,

0:44.6

that is a pretty big fulcrum point for humanity.

0:48.4

And so you have one shot.

0:51.0

And so investing heavily in reducing the odds of that, that was the game.

1:01.5

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1:10.0

and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

1:12.3

We are back after a very restful two weeks off.

1:17.1

I, like surely most of you, did nothing.

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We had a super low-key Christmas.

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It was just the four of us.

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It was a little weird, but also quite nice.

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And then, you know, this week happened, which has just been incredible and really unsettling

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with the whole storming of the Capitol building at the behest of a sitting U.S. president

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