Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.

Today's episode is the second of my two panels recorded at the Foundation for American Innovations,

reboot 2024, the New Reality Conference. Today's panel features Teddy

Sifer of the New York Times and Samo Borgja who leads Bismarck analysis out of San Francisco

and is very well known in tech circles as an analyst who looks at broad geopolitical issues

and the intersection with American domestic

politics and intellectual issues. Hope you all enjoy the conversation. We get

into the topic of to what degree has Silicon Valley gone to the right,

what are the underlying forces driving transformation,

and how can we understand the positions of both parties

when it comes to tech in that concept.

Hope you all enjoy the conversation.

Somo, Teddy, we'll go on the line that way.

I would love to hear just a quick articulation

of your background and how that background relates to the topic we're discussing today

the political valence of Silicon Valley. So Salma how about you kick us off? I'm

Samo Burya I am the founder and president of Bismarck Analysis. We are a consulting and research firm.

We often look at economic, political, technological questions for clients.

Many of our clients are in Silicon Valley. We publish a intelligence newsletter called the Bismarck Brief.

I also sit on the editorial board of Palladium

magazine that has extensive cultural commentary on these topics.

And that's in a way my background.

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