Hello and welcome back to Equity Tech Crunch's flagship podcast about the business of

startups. I'm Marianne Asavado and this is our Wednesday episode where we

hone in on a trend in the startup world and dive deep.

Today we're bringing you a conversation from Tech Crunch's

strictly VC event in DC earlier this month,

where our editor and chief and general manager

Connie Loizos sat down with Luther Lowe who serves as

Y-Combinators head of public policy. Connie and Luther touched on antitrust

efforts to rein in big tech, why-Comb, leadership, and access to talent, and what competition

policy and regulation look like in the AI era.

It's a super interesting conversation, so let's take a listen.

If you are joining us a little bit late and we're wondering about humane AI again

I'm sorry a big bummer, they're not coming.

But we have an amazing guest in their stead.

I'm very excited.

Luther Lowe who joined the world's most powerful

accelerator program, White Combinator,

last fall. Before joining Yinator, last fall.

Before joining YC, Luther was Senior Vice President of Public Policy at Yelp,

where over a 15-year career with the company he became a prominent voice pushing for antitrust

action against Google,

even launching an email newsletter called

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