There's no one more powerful when it comes to soft money, lobbying, academic papers.

Like Google has covered all of its bases when it comes to making sure that any kind of regulatory action is delayed as long as possible.

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Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes

and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

Thank you for tuning in.

As always, as I mentioned last week, we are busy, busy, busy,

working on The Pivot, our new spin-off podcast series, which will be a series of documentary-style

stories from Silicon Valley. It's launching later this month. So do keep an eye on this feed for

updates, trailers, etc.

It's all coming very soon. It's going to be huge. But because the thirst for content

never dies, neither does this podcast. And this week we have a super interesting one for you.

So you may have seen that the U.S. government is gearing up for a potential antitrust case

against Google, which is part of a wider crackdown on Big Tech.

And of course, this trails the EU by years, but better late than ever, I guess.

So I thought, who better to bring on this week than Jeremy Stoppelman, who's the founder of Yelp.

And Stoppelman has been screaming from the rooftops for years about what he claims are Google's abuses of power, unfair tactics, underhanded business dealings, and on and on and on.

And Yelp, which in case you don't know, is a review site for restaurants, local businesses,

et cetera, and it has been on the receiving end of a lot of that action.

And it suffered.

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