{"id":78741,"date":"2025-05-29T14:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/what-founders-need-to-know-about-techs-growing-influence-in-d-c\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T14:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:47:23","slug":"what-founders-need-to-know-about-techs-growing-influence-in-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/what-founders-need-to-know-about-techs-growing-influence-in-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"What founders need to know about tech\u2019s growing influence in D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on TechCrunch\u2019s Equity (<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/<\/a>)  podcast, Rebecca Bellan caught up with \u00a0Daniel Weiner (&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/about\/leadership\/daniel-i-weiner&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; <!--more--> rel=&#8221;nofollow&#8221;&gt;https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/about\/leadership\/daniel-i-weiner<\/a>) , director of the Brennan Center\u2019s Elections and Government Program, to break down what this means for startups, innovation, and democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full episode to hear more about:<\/p>\n<p>  \u2022  <\/p>\n<p>     How SpaceX, Palantir, and Anduril leveraged insider networks to win major defense deals.<\/p>\n<p>  \u2022  <\/p>\n<p>     Changing ethics safeguards, and why that matters for founders entering government spaces.<\/p>\n<p>  \u2022  <\/p>\n<p>     What this all means for fair competition and startups trying to break in.<\/p>\n<p>Equity will be back Friday with our weekly news round-up. Don\u2019t miss it!<\/p>\n<p>Equity is TechCrunch\u2019s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts (<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780<\/a>) , Overcast (<a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity<\/a>) , Spotify (<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ)<\/a>  and all the casts. 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Visit megaphone.fm\/adchoices (<a href=\"https:\/\/megaphone.fm\/adchoices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/megaphone.fm\/adchoices<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on TechCrunch\u2019s Equity (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/) podcast, Rebecca Bellan caught up with \u00a0Daniel Weiner (&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/about\/leadership\/daniel-i-weiner&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}