Mark Warner has a different background than his colleagues in the Senate, one more familiar in Silicon Valley than Washington’s halls. Before Virginians elected him U.S. Senator in 2008, and their governor six years before that, Warner was a venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He co-founded Nextel, a wireless company now owned by Sprint, and then invested in hundreds of startups. Today, he’s worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
When I sat down with Sen. Warner this week for Big Technology Podcast, I wanted to learn why his colleagues talked a big game about regulating Big Tech but had done so little. By persistently calling out tech executives and then sitting on their hands, they risked losing credibility. And given Warner’s background, he was the perfect person to ask.
