Bruce's victim this time is Harry Godfrey, Executive Director and Co-founder of the Little Tech Association. Harry and Bruce talk about who’s actually representing startups in Washington, and who claims to represent them while actually serving Big Tech’s interests.

They get into how incumbents use market power to shut out competitors, why Harry sees smart, targeted regulation as the thing that keeps markets open rather than the opposite, and what the antitrust breakups of Microsoft, AT&T and Standard Oil may suggest about the moment tech is in now with AI.

Show notes:

• Little Tech Association

• Andy Yen on For a Better Web

• Patricia Egger (Proton security) on For a Better Web

• Gene Burrus on For a Better Web

• US vs Microsoft

• US vs Apple

• How George Harrison – and a very naughty boy – saved British cinema

Chapters:

(0:00) Intro: meet Harry Godfrey

(0:42) What is the Little Tech Association?

(1:19) Lobbyist or advocate?

(1:54) Vivaldi's ties to LTA

(2:26) Three types of tech lobbies

(5:24) Why Big Tech funds fake groups

(6:40) Defining "little" and "tech"

(8:39) What unites LTA's 240+ members

(11:56) Capitalist to its core

(14:23) Who doesn't get to join LTA

(18:44) LTA's founding members

(23:06) Regulation: pro-growth or not?

(28:38) Harry's path: clean tech to LTA

(33:48) AI's dorm-room moment

(34:37) How antitrust built Google

(37:19) George Harrison or Harrison Ford?

(38:03) Wrap-up