John Borthwick, general director of the Venture Capital Betaworks, tells Wired that he is skeptical about the enforceability and potential effectiveness of many proposals of the Mamdani-Takich campaign as free buses or a pilot program of a grocery store, and believed that his answers were “very general and non-specific”. But Borthwick adds that Mamdani considered “a very attractive and friendly and intelligent, interesting person.”
“I think he is very good in the campaign, and also illustrates a huge vacuum in the Democratic Party that it runs very much,” says Borthwick. “This is a vacuum of new ideas, lack of new people, no views. And I think there is idealism that brings a refreshing.”
A few questions focused on how the mayor of Mamdani would affect the technology industry. Borthwick says that he asked Mamdani how he would react to the risk that artificial intelligence is a job-in particular white work at the basic level-in the following few years.
“I am a bit surprised that this has not become a problem with the campaign,” says Borthwick. He says that Mamdani “admitted that it was not the subject of the campaign, but he would have to be the subject of interest if he were elected.” But generally Borthwick did not think that Mamdani’s answer was specific enough.
Ryan says he asked Mamdani about “stunning height” in Number of technological employees and startups In recent years with headquarters in Recent York. He says that Mamdani “recognized” the importance of the Recent York technology sector and told about how the public sphere can learn from it. Ryan claims that Mamdani has raised several ideas, such as using the city’s government to reduce costs and enhance efficiency and introduce a progress meter for 311 complaints reminiscent of such a thing Domino’s pizza tracker.
However, most conversations with Mamdani focused on things that were critical to the participants as Recent Yorkers, not enterprises. Susan Lyne, co -founder and managing partner of BBG (built by girls) Ventures, says Wired that he thinks that the participants “were there to understand who this guy is, who could be our next mayor.”
“The technology industry does not really need any tax breaks,” says Ryan Wired. “We need a city where all kinds of super intelligent people who are between the ages of 20 to 40 want to come.”
In the first years after Pandemia in Recent York attracted more transferring technology employees than any city in the country, even though they have Some of the nation The highest rent rates.
Mamdani was also asked about universal care for children up to 5 years, which he supports, and what his priority would be during the first 100 days of office, which he said, will be free buses. He was also asked about his position in charter schools.
However, during this meeting there was no meaning, it is an online discourse handrail against Mamdani, which one person who participated in the meeting had a “great influence” in the world of technology.
A significant part of the online discourse on Mamdani does not focus on certain rules. Mamdani’s public comments are often mentioned on how billionaires would not exist In a fair society in which employees receive fair and moderate forces for the inequality of wealth. People like Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan replied Wearing shirts This saying “we should have more billionaires” in the colors and style of Mamdani campaign materials. (Tan, however specifically spoken against Mammali critical position Several times in specialist high schools, calling this position “anti -Nazi. “)