E6
Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley
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The companies that were the most at risk going in were the same companies at risk coming out. If you had to stack rank the risk, I think Facebook is number one at the top of the list. Then I think it's Google. Then I think it's Apple. And then far, far, far down is Amazon.
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Big-tech antitrust hearing postmortem (Bezos/Zuck/Sundar/Cook). Consensus: performative theater with a few real hits — Bezos conceding Amazon may have broken its own third-party-seller-data policy, Nadler teeing up an Instagram unwind ('crippling' if forced — Sacks), Google snippets (Australia ordering payment). Chamath's risk stack-rank captured on his live Facebook short; his structural takes (big-four M&A is dead — Fitbit taking 2 years proves it; regulation-and-taxation beats trust-busting; Zuck's monolithic-codebase manifesto as anti-breakup engineering; late-stage private valuations fall when the 2x-acquisition path dies) — digest. Sacks: M&A chilling effect is 'a disaster for Silicon Valley' (M&A = outsourced R&D); Amazon = 'the scariest monopolist' but gets away unscathed; 'the threat is greater than the execution' as the right antitrust posture. Friedberg's Amazon-seller receipts (Soylent top-10 food item: Amazon margins worse than Shopify/retail, best-price forcing) and platform-scale defense (only trillion-dollar companies fund $10B satellite constellations). Censorship corner: Chamath's 500K-human-classifier idea gets torched by everyone; verified-identity-for-reach consensus-ish; Zuck defended as the last free-speech holdout. Election: Friedberg puts his 'entire net worth' on TRUMP; Sacks and Chamath lean Biden — politics, no instrument. Labels clean.