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Big Tech’s Competitor? Government

Andrew Payne

On one hand, Facebook and their gorilla brethren have earned their market positions within a global capitalist ecosystem (mostly) fair and square. Apple’s privacy and security architecture becomes central to a national security discussion. Warren announcing the idea as part of her campaign platform.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

Sal Khan : If you go back to mid-February, it sounds like the world was very different then, but it was in mid-February that we started seeing traffic pickup in China and South Korea. The team's been energized and excited to have a role to play in this global pandemic. You might have some type of shift-based architecture.