The entire world that's going to use AI is going to benefit from this kind of hyper competition

that's going to potentially run for decades.

And so I think if you put these CEOs in a true serum, what they would say is that's actually

their nightmare.

That's why they're in Washington.

That's why they're in Washington. That's why they're in Washington.

Crypto is really our best answer for getting back to delivering the internet back to the people and away from the large tech monopolies.

It is the one technology that can really do that.

And if we don't do that, over the next five years, these monopolies are going to get much much stronger.

Probably some of them will be stronger than the U.S. government itself.

We're definitely on the side of freedom of innovate.

Having said that, that's not the same as saying no regulations of anything ever.

Ignoring tech is kind of no longer. saying no and everything. Big Tech has been present in Washington, but Big Tech's interests are not only very different than startup innovators' interests, but we think also divergent from America's interest as a whole.

Hello everyone, welcome back to the A16Z podcast.

In today's episode, you'll get to hear directly from 816Z's co-founder, Mark Andresen, and Ben Horowitz,

as they discuss one of the most hot-button issues of today.

That is, politics and the future of tech. Now this is obviously a

climactic year for both policy and technology, but the overlap of these two fields

has been increasing for quite some time.

So today, Mark and Ben sit down to answer audience questions around this topic,

touching on the important and increasing distinction between big and little tech, AI regulation and funding, the role of

tech in geopolitics, and even while the firm has chosen to get involved in tech policy.

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