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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News.

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Speaker 2: Today on Bloomberg Technology, we're going to speak with Reid Hoffman.

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Speaker 2: You perhaps know him best as the co founder of LinkedIn,

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Speaker 2: but the billionaire and investor is also part of a

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Speaker 2: group of Silicon Valley investors that are immersed in this

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Speaker 2: presidential election, rallying behind his or their favorite candidate in

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Speaker 2: the race, Kamala Harris. Reid Hoffman joins US now and

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Speaker 2: read thank you for your time in coming on Bloomberg Technology.

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Speaker 2: You know, the pitch in the plage was to keep

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Speaker 2: this focused on tech. So I would like to ask

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Speaker 2: you why is Kamala Harris the best candidate for the

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Speaker 2: technology industry and benure capitalists around the US.

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Speaker 3: Well, so, what the tech industry needs is kind of

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Speaker 3: a stable environment in order to you know, kind of

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Speaker 3: follow the rules and prosper in an ability because, by

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Speaker 3: the way, one of the things that the tech industry

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Speaker 3: brings to the US is a kind of a It's

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Speaker 3: one of our most successful global industries where most of

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Speaker 3: for example, the large tech companies get the vast majority

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Speaker 3: of the revenues overseas, like the majority and depends on

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Speaker 3: the business and so good global relations, in addition to

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Speaker 3: stability and an ability to kind of know that you're

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Speaker 3: following a rule of law versus what I think of

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Speaker 3: as grifter or capitalism.

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Speaker 1: All of that leads.

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Speaker 3: To, like, you know, the reason why I and others

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Speaker 3: like me support Vice President Harris for president because I

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Speaker 3: think those are the more fundamental things. Then you know

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Speaker 3: whether or not a corporate tax rate goes up or

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Speaker 3: down a little. Obviously those can be important in other

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Speaker 3: other times for business. But that's the reason why I

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Speaker 3: think within the technology industry, I think it's a fairly

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Speaker 3: clear choice.

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Speaker 2: Read we recently had SEC check against on the program,

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Speaker 2: and a part of the conversation for both candidates is

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Speaker 2: continuity at the FTC and the You've actually spoken publicly,

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Speaker 2: I think about both already, But what is your latest

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Speaker 2: position on those two roles. Lena Kahn and Gary Gensler

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Speaker 2: if Kamala Harris were to continue in the White House

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Speaker 2: due to their impact on the technology industry.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's see.

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Speaker 3: So, first, since I've spoken, because I get asked a

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Speaker 3: lot about Lena Cohn, I've spoken more about Lena Kahn.

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Speaker 3: You know, one misconception to clear up is I've never

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Speaker 3: ever talked to Kamala Harris or anyone in the White

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Speaker 3: House about Lena kN for this. So this is entirely

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Speaker 3: a press set of stories where I'm asked about my

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Speaker 3: point of view, and I think she's done a very

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Speaker 3: good job on a number of things, the anti compete

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Speaker 3: stuff that click to cancel and subscriptions, a number of

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Speaker 3: things on M and A. Speaking as a partner at

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Speaker 3: Greyloc and as a Silicon Valley person who invests in

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Speaker 3: companies trying to create the next generational large tech companies,

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Speaker 3: her you know, kind of like waging war on M

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Speaker 3: It actually accomplishes something different than what she thinks she's accomplishing.

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Speaker 3: She thinks she's trying to accomplish the you know, kind

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Speaker 3: of the limitation of the growth of the large tech companies,

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Speaker 3: And so that's a that's a different thing, and that's

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Speaker 3: the that's the Lena Khan, which I still have the

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Speaker 3: same point of view, and I've asked about it from

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Speaker 3: I will continue to say that Gary Gensler, I think

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Speaker 3: the question, and I know Gary, I've talked to him

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Speaker 3: from the MIT days, is how do you kind of

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Speaker 3: shift kind of a kind of approach to crypto that's

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Speaker 1: Of rules that we could set out that would.

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Speaker 3: Create a beneficial technological investment that helps us position globally.

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Speaker 3: And I think it's been uneven and so I would

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Speaker 3: hope that, you know, Vice President Harris, who grew up

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Speaker 3: hope that she would bring a kind of a more

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Speaker 4: An innovation forward perspective is that the key difference that

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Speaker 3: Well, I think so she has always brought a certain

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Speaker 3: how that can help everyday Americans, how that can help

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Speaker 3: I realized that the tech industry is about innovation and

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Speaker 1: And those are the questions that she's asked. Now.

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Speaker 3: Biden, who has done a number of great things in

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Speaker 3: a number of very good things, but he has not

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Speaker 3: going foot forward on safety and regulation. What kinds of

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Speaker 3: That's what I expect across her approaching the entire technology

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Speaker 4: Let's go to the other hypothetical, because she's engaging at

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Speaker 4: the moment with the tech community. But many would say

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Speaker 4: with the amount that he's having Elon Musk on stage.

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Speaker 4: If we see Musk taking a bigger role within a

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Speaker 3: Musk Well, I think it depends on what the Trump administration,

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Speaker 3: what Elon does. I think you know, the the Trump

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Speaker 3: his early presidency has shown a certain amount of grifter capitalism.

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Speaker 3: of like the if you're going to be individual company retaliatory,

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Speaker 3: It's part of what might underlie a terrorist regime, is

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Speaker 3: that does not create a good stable environment for investing

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Speaker 3: in you know, kind of like you know, how do

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Speaker 3: then the question, you know, would come down with Elon. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: Elon's businesses have great ties to government. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: Obviously, you know what's going on with.

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Speaker 3: and I think unfortunately X dot Com is the primary

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Speaker 3: which is a serious problem.

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Speaker 1: All of that, the question.

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Speaker 3: Is is, all right, well, does it continue to be

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Speaker 3: grifter capitalism which is calling out to specific companies, or

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Speaker 3: is it rule of law?

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Speaker 2: Read on X and conspiracy theories. Bloomberg did a deep report,

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Speaker 2: a data based piece of investiative journalism on that recently,

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Speaker 2: find on YouTube, we gave X's point of view, which

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Speaker 2: me to, I've invited Elon Musk onto this program many

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Speaker 2: times and you are here and he's not. Something's different

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Speaker 2: in this election. You're a well known person in the

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Speaker 2: Have there been any negative consequences of that, For example,

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Speaker 3: Well, I've seen and you know, I think you know

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Speaker 3: like I've I've heard of Republican senators trash talking me

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Speaker 4: Have this here, let's talking about the souring of certain relationships.

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Speaker 4: Edol Musk, who seems to have a dislike for the

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Speaker 4: business if he took a more prominent role within the administration,

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Speaker 4: What would it look like for AI more broadly to

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Speaker 3: Well, one of the things that I would worry about

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Speaker 3: if Elon took a more prominent role is that he

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Speaker 1: Know, the AI industry is if he is doing it.

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Speaker 3: I care about is all of them, you know, the

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Speaker 1: And I think we'd have to see what would play out.

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Speaker 3: Then.

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Speaker 2: The latest on the listigation between the two, I believe

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Speaker 2: is also the eighth when Open AI accused Elon Musk

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Speaker 2: of harassment in that legal fight, and again we've covered

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Speaker 2: it on this program Read and we'll go back to it.

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Speaker 2: Is AI and regulation of AI being discussed enough in

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Speaker 2: this election by either candidate.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm not sure that it's the most central thing

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Speaker 3: for kind of the general American society at the moment. Look,

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Speaker 3: I think the how we get the benefits of AI

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Speaker 3: it tends to slow down innovation, that tends to delay

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Speaker 3: and I think are tools for getting a medical assistant

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Speaker 3: on every smartphone, a tutor on every smartphone for every

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Speaker 3: that's less of a discussion about you know, AI in

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Speaker 3: the election, but more kind of a like we should

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Speaker 2: Read if former President Trump were to get a second

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Speaker 2: term in office, how are you preparing for that and

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Speaker 2: how do you approach it were that to be the case.

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Speaker 3: Well, if that's the case, then I would hope for

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Speaker 3: the folks who who have argued to me that you know,

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Speaker 3: you shouldn't actually in fact take President Trump's words seriously.

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Speaker 3: That the fact that he is declaring a you know,

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Speaker 3: like a tariff for w where you can do individual

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Speaker 3: kind of grifter capitalism, but that's actually not what he's.

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Speaker 1: Going to do.

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Speaker 3: That he's going to try to be more business forward,

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Speaker 3: more technology forward, and you should not be paying attention

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Speaker 3: to what his words are. I would hope that they

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Speaker 3: would be they would be correct if it ends up

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Speaker 3: being what I fear, which is actually in fact a

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Speaker 3: you know, kind of an individual kind of uh, you know,

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Speaker 3: I think that will affect American industry in a way

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Speaker 3: that will affect American prosperity, and so I think you

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Speaker 3: have to. You have to you build in more resilience

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Speaker 3: to chaos and uncertainty, and that's what you would do.

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Speaker 3: I'm obviously very hopeful that Vice President Harris will win

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Speaker 3: the election, and so therefore haven't done enormous contingency planning yet.

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Speaker 4: I want to thank you so much for your perspective

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Speaker 4: today as you do. Indeed, back Vice Paradism and Harris

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Speaker 4: for the administration is the future. Gray Lot partner Reaed Hoffman,

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Speaker 4: I appreciate it.