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The Sheriff of Silicon Valley: Lina Khan’s FTC agenda for M&A, AI Acquisitions, and Non-Competes

2024/10/3
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Lina Khan 认为，过去几十年美国市场的高度集中是由于并购浪潮和对反垄断法的宽松执法造成的。这种市场集中对消费者、企业家和小企业都产生了负面影响。她认为，反垄断法应该从更广泛的角度看待企业的主导地位和垄断，而不仅仅是关注短期价格效应。在监管并购方面，她强调要了解市场的实际情况，确保并购不会扼杀现有或未来的竞争，并评估并购对未来竞争的影响。她认为，数字市场可能出现“倾斜”，一旦一家公司占据主导地位，就很难打破这种局面。她还谈到了对人工智能收购的监管，以及如何平衡促进创新和防止垄断之间的关系。她认为，FTC 的工作是执行现有法律，而不是制定新的法规，并致力于制定清晰简单的规则，避免偏袒大型企业。她还强调了政策制定过程的公开透明性，以及倾听更广泛市场参与者声音的重要性。最后，她谈到了如何衡量政府机构的有效性，以及 FTC 如何努力解决重要问题，并确保市场开放，为更多企业创造蓬勃发展的生态系统。

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Lina Khan's career began in journalism, where she documented market consolidation and its impact on individuals and businesses. This experience sparked her interest in market structure and the role of antitrust laws in promoting competition.
  • Early career as a business reporter and journalist
  • Research on market consolidation and its effects
  • Focus on how market structure is a policy question

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Lina Khan’s FTC has been the most active in decades, notably challenging tech giants and adopting a more hands-on approach to regulating the digital age. On today’s episode of No Priors, Lina Khan joins Elad and Sarah to discuss her regulatory philosophy for tech markets and what the industry can expect for future M&A deals. She shares her approach to overseeing emerging technology sectors, including AI at the model layer, and her work to ban non-competes on a federal level. Khan also offers insights into the realities of leading a government agency, the scarcity of young leaders in power, and how she measures the FTC’s impact.

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) Introduction

(0:56) Lina Khan’s background and path to the FTC

(2:35) Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox

(4:20) Frameworks for regulating M&A in young markets

(8:50) Khan’s perspective on AI acquisitions

(12:18) What founders can expect from Khan’s M&A environment 

(14:55) Promoting competition at the large model layer

(17:01) Creating fair AI regulation

(18:40) FTC’s work to ban non-competes

(20:31) Why so few young people hold power in government today

(22:18) The realities of running a government agency

(24:20) Measuring the impact of FTC