Source: The American Prospect
by Henry Burke & Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
“Arguably the most lucrative innovation to come out of Silicon Valley in the past decade and a half has been a willingness to break the law. The conscious decision to defy existing regulation (frequently by reference to ‘blitzscaling,’ a strategy of rapidly expanding businesses promoted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman) is now the easiest way to find success in America’s crowded startup economy. Blitzscaling, exemplified by Uber and other venture capital–backed tech companies, is now being put to use by the Trump administration and its techno-fascist staffer class. Much like Silicon Valley investors, administration officials have learned that the structures governing the American economy and its liberal democratic order are no match for unadulterated speed. Like Uber, the Trump administration has found regulators, law enforcement, and courts asleep at the switch, unwilling to fight to enforce the most basic of guardrails.” (08/20/25)
https://prospect.org/power/2025-08-20-what-trump-learned-from-silicon-valley/