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Show Notes
Campaign contributions are just table stakes for companies trying to make legislation in their favor.
Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and the author of Supercommunicators and The Power of Habit. Mary Long caught up with Duhigg to talk about his latest article in The New Yorker. They discuss:
- How Airbnb mobilized voters in San Francisco.
- The battle to regulate artificial intelligence.
- How the crypto industry is building political power.
Check out Duhigg’s article on lobbying in Silicon Valley: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/14/silicon-valley-the-new-lobbying-monster
Companies discussed: MSFT, ABNB, COIN
Host: Mary Long
Guest: Charles Duhigg
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineers: Tim Sparks, Austin Morgan
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