{"id":1061,"date":"2025-06-04T16:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2025-06-04T16:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:38:27","slug":"what-founders-need-to-know-about-techs-growing-influence-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"What founders need to know about tech\u2019s growing influence in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/teraco-2-1024x690.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/teraco-2-1024x690.png 1024w, https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/teraco-2-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/teraco-2-768x518.png 768w, https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/teraco-2.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">\u201cStartup culture may be great for putting out a new app or building a successful company, but not for distributing tens of millions of people\u2019s benefits. Real people with real interests are at stake,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/about\/leadership\/daniel-i-weiner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daniel Weiner<\/a>, director of the Brennan Center for Justice\u2019s Elections and Government Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, when it comes to the general public, \u201cmove fast and break things\u201d isn\u2019t exactly popular. But that Silicon Valley culture continues to seep into policy as tech billionaires <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/16\/how-silicon-valleys-influence-in-washington-benefits-the-tech-elite\/\">expand their influence in Washington<\/a>, making these tensions harder to ignore. Elon Musk spent nearly $300 million to elect Donald Trump, and now holds sway over the federal agencies that regulate his businesses and award government contracts. And he\u2019s not alone. Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey have also built powerful networks that now reach deep into policymaking circles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcast\/what-founders-need-to-know-about-techs-growing-influence-in-d-c\/\">To read more click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStartup culture may be great for putting out a new app or building a successful company, but not for distributing tens of millions of people\u2019s benefits. Real people with real interests are at stake,\u201d says Daniel Weiner, director of the Brennan Center for Justice\u2019s Elections and Government Program. In other words, when it comes to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}