4.4 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sabotage, hired goons and a landfill in Utah. |
0:05.0 | How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief |
0:10.7 | second life and then was buried for good. |
0:14.8 | Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube. |
0:19.4 | Hey everybody, it's Neil from The Vergecast. |
0:23.6 | On this week's interview episode, we have Lena Kahn, who is someone I've been wanting |
0:27.7 | to talk to you for a long time. |
0:29.7 | So when Lena was a law student at Yale, she wrote this paper called Amazon's Antitrust |
0:34.5 | Paradox, which basically laid out the case for regulating Amazon. |
0:38.4 | And it said that even though Amazon lowers prices, you have to look at its effects on the |
0:42.7 | entire market of tech and services and say, hey, this is a monopoly. |
0:46.7 | She wrote this while she was a law student and it kicked off an entire wave of rethinking |
0:51.5 | antitrust policy in America. |
0:53.3 | She ended up at the Federal Trade Commission, working for Commissioner Rohit Chopra. |
0:56.8 | She's since left there and now she's a fellow at Columbia University and she's part of |
0:59.8 | the Open Market's Institute. |
1:01.4 | But she's someone who literally wrote a paper in law school that you can go read. |
1:06.3 | It's pinned on her Twitter account. |
1:07.8 | Go read it. |
1:08.8 | It's very interesting. |
1:09.8 | But she wrote this paper in law school and kicked off a huge rethink about how we treat |
1:14.4 | Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft. |
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