TikTok Sale Or Ban Moves Forward In U.S. — With Mike Solana

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Alex Kantrowitz

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Mike Solana is the chief marketing officer at Founders Fund and editor-in-chief of Pirate Wires. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the potential forced sale or ban of TikTok as the U.S. congress voted to pass a bill requiring it. Join us for an in-depth discussion of the arguements for and against banning the app, and how big money is influencing some of the key players. We also talk about Elon Musk, the state of X, Temu and Shein, the power of social media algorithms, and Devin, the first AI software engineer. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology Premium? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Mike Solana from Founders Fund and Pirate Wires joins us as the U.S. House of Representatives votes on whether to force TikTok to sell itself or be banned.
0:10.6	We'll discuss the push, the rationale, and the results right after this.
0:14.8	Hey, I'm Michael Kovnet, host of The Next Big Idea Daily.
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0:23.2	Every morning, Monday through Friday, we'll serve up a quick 10-minute lesson on how to
0:27.7	strengthen your relationships, supercharge your creativity, boost your productivity, and more.
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0:38.9	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world
0:43.3	and beyond. We have a great show for you with a great guest. Mike Solana is here. He's the
0:47.6	CMO at Founders Fund and the editor-in-chief of Pirate Wires. And we're going to talk about this
0:52.3	potential TikTok band from the House of Representatives as Congress votes. This is the first time we're going to talk about this potential TikTok ban from the House of Representatives
0:54.8	as Congress votes. This is the first time we're going to actually do a podcast with C-SPAN
1:00.1	open in the second window. It's very exciting and I'm thrilled to open and I'm thrilled to welcome
1:04.4	Mike to the show. Mike, welcome. Thank you for having me. Thanks for being here. So obviously a big
1:09.9	vote seems like it came out of nowhere, but reading pirate wires, it seems
1:13.6	like there was actually something that happened that's been really under discussed that
1:18.4	you pointed out that I think we should begin with that sort of precipitated this whole event.
1:22.8	So you write, last week following a classified hearing with officials from the FBI and the
1:27.3	Justice Department, which we still know almost nothing about, for which a bipartisan group of lawmakers resurrected Trump's attempt at TikTok divestiture.
1:36.0	So, yeah, lead us into that.
1:37.6	Well, we don't know much about it.
1:38.9	We do know that it happened.
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