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TechCrunch Minute: Where Kamala Harris stands on tech issues

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This weekend, President Biden announced that he would suspend his campaign for president, and he endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris. We still don’t know if she will ultimately be the candidate that goes toe-to-toe with Donald Trump in November, but we do know that Silicon Valley has opinions.

Like Trump’s VP pick J.D. Vance, Harris has ties in the Bay Area, which means venture capitalists and tech power players are chattering. 

On Sunday, LinkedIn co-founder and major Democratic donor Reid Hoffman almost immediately endorsed Harris. Venture capitalists John Doerr and Ron Conway followed suit, while Vinod Khosla commented that he wants to see  “an open process at the [democratic national convention] and not a coronation.”

Harris climbed the political ranks by serving as the district attorney of San Francisco, the attorney general of California and, finally, as a U.S. Senator. She presided over the state in a time when Silicon Valley transformed into the tech hotbed it is today, but where does she stand on issues that concern tech founders and employees?

In today’s TechCrunch Minute, we’re breaking down what we know about where Harris stands on big tech and AI regulation.

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