All posts tagged: Lina Khan

The tech elite found an enemy — and found Trump

October 15, 2024
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

Lina Khan made Silicon Valley switch political allegiance Published in Svenska Dagbladet, 2024-10-15. Translated from Swedish. As long as the money kept flowing in, venture capitalists didn’t need to care about politics. A young lawyer changed that. Now the liberal tech power centre of Silicon Valley is a pillar of the conservative movement that wants to make Trump president. The audience cheers. The stage is framed by stone, with an engraved reminder about the importance […]

Lina Khan has Silicon Valley trembling

July 3, 2023
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on July 3rd, 2023. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. 34-year-old Lina Khan is the lawyer who has made Silicon Valley companies tremble. With a single article, she has turned how competition law is applied completely on its head. “Do you ever get angry? Is there anything that makes you furious?” The British law student […]