Investor, Activist Swati Mylavarapu: Tech World Must “Get Uncomfortable” With Its Impact On Society

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

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Swati Mylavarapu is a tech investor and activist who spent $2 million in the 2020 election cycle on Democratic causes, in partnership with her husband, Nest co-founder Matt Rogers. Mylavarapu isn’t your typical Silicon Valley investor. She’ll explicitly admit that the tech industry has some culpability in the hollowing out of the middle of our economy, delivering wealth to the few while leaving the rest in a tough spot. She also served as Pete Buttigeg’s national finance chair in the 2020 Democratic primaries, playing a key role in his surprising upstart campaign. Mylavarapu joined the Big Technology Podcast fresh off a bout with Covid-19 to discuss the tech industry’s role in our society, and how it can be a force for good moving forward.

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0:00.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast.
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0:19.7	All right.
0:20.5	Are you ready to begin?
0:21.9	I am.
0:22.8	Okay.
0:36.9	Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast,
0:37.3	a show for cool-hearted, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:41.6	Today we're going to have a really interesting conversation talking about Silicon Valley's power, economic and otherwise, with someone who's been watching it and helping influence its direction from the front lines.
0:53.1	We're joined today by Swathi
0:55.0	Mila Varaupu, a founder of Insight, which is an atypical investment firm and someone who's also
1:02.7	been on the front lines of the Silicon Valley's involvement in the political scene in the
1:08.6	U.S. over this past election season. She and I have spoken
1:11.0	in the past for stories, and it's been great, and I am thrilled to welcome her to the show. Welcome,
1:16.9	Swathi. Hi, Alex. I'm really excited to be here. Yeah, it's great having you here. We were actually
1:23.0	scheduled to record last week, and then do you want to fill us in on what your past couple of weeks
1:27.4	have been like? Yeah, it's actually why I am literally excited to be here. to record last week. And then do you want to fill us in on what your past couple of weeks have
1:27.5	been like? Yeah, it's actually why I am literally excited to be here. My family and I contracted COVID.
1:34.7	So we were grappling with the realities of that for most of the last two weeks, including over
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