Meet the Most Feared Person in Silicon Valley

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Lina Khan has inspired an unusually bipartisan coalition of allies — and antagonists. As chair of the Federal Trade Commission, she became known as the most hated regulator on Wall Street. As too principled for Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Too bold for Ticketmaster and the NCAA. But Khan isn't done taking on the corporate class — or finding strange bedfellows like Steve Bannon and Michael Jordan. Can her alleged "hipster anti-trust" movement inspire a "standing army" for the people? And could she be our next Supreme Court justice? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.6	I think Lena Khan should have been given more power, should have been able to do more things.
0:11.3	I think there's obviously a big problem. I think a big problem in Silicon Valley.
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1:18.1	Do I call you, Lena?
1:19.6	Do I call you chair con?
1:20.7	Whatever you want.
1:23.6	I mean, I'm not really a chair anymore.
1:26.8	Well, I was going to say, I don't know if it's like, you know, you're sort of Mr.
1:31.9	President forever. I don't know how it works with the FTC. I think we get to set the rules, so whatever you want. You're going, you're going casual today. We can do that. I mean, it would seem fitting.
1:37.2	Well, look, I've told a bunch of people in my life, you were coming to visit our studio today, and thank you for being here, by the way. And the
1:45.1	reactions tend to go into two camps. One of them is, holy shit. The other one is, who is that?
1:53.7	That's not too surprising. I mean, for a long time, you know, the Federal Trade Commission was
1:58.8	somewhat esoteric and arcane,
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