Big tech companies have used acquisitions to hoard human capital and prevent competitors from flourishing, an issue that requires changes to stock-based compensation to address.

“The underlying thing of what he was saying was hey hold on a second uh you just caused the recession in america by raising too quickly the fed is now in this really delicate situation where china cut rates last week”

The current approach to antitrust is overly subjective and fails to protect the consumer interest by potentially blocking deals that could have generated positive consumer experiences.

“If it's not about consumer harm and it's about decreasing competition in this broadly I would argue subjective sense then um what's scary is that there are going to be decisions made by interpreters of what is and isn't competitive and ultimately if they're not trying to keep in mind the best intere”

Modern antitrust regulation is becoming a politicized process that creates business uncertainty and chills M&A activity.

“It's going to require m a to become kind of a political maneuvering process similar you know create sort of these uh you know um obfuscated gates where you don't really know what it's going to take to get through there”