Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Are we becoming a nation mined for our money, data, and attention? Author and legal scholar Tim Wu certainly thinks so. A key architect of President Joe Biden’s antitrust policy, Wu joins WSJ’s Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins on Bold Names to explain how a handful of tech platforms conquered the economy and why he fears Silicon Valley could become “inefficient, bloated, and bested by foreign competitors,” if the country doesn’t rein in monopoly power. Wu shares insights from his new book, “The Age of Extraction,” which maps out a path toward restoring competition and rebuilding an economy that works for everyone.
Chapters:
00:00 Apple’s controversial 2024 ad
0:52 Introducing Tim Wu
1:51 History of platforms
2:30 Modern platform power
9:11 Amazon Marketplace as an example
13:31 The role of scale and content in Big Tech
16:36 Antitrust lessons from IBM & AT&T
19:17 Future of AI and Big Tech
20:35 Wu’s policy recommendations
29:43 Final thoughts on regulating Big Tech
WSJ’s Bold Names brings you conversations with the leaders of the bold-named companies featured in the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Hosts Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims speak to CEOs and business leaders in interviews that challenge conventional wisdom and take you inside the decisions being made in the C-suite and beyond.
Let us know what you think of the show. Email us at BoldNames@wsj.com
#Tech #Business #WSJ
Are we becoming a nation mined for our money, data, and attention? Author and legal scholar Tim Wu certainly thinks so. A key architect of President Joe Biden’s antitrust policy, Wu joins WSJ’s Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins on Bold Names to explain how a handful of tech platforms conquered the economy and why he fears Silicon Valley could become “inefficient, bloated, and bested by foreign competitors,” if the country doesn’t rein in monopoly power. Wu shares insights from his new book, “The Age of Extraction,” which maps out a path toward restoring competition and rebuilding an economy that works for everyone.
Chapters:
00:00 Apple’s controversial 2024 ad
0:52 Introducing Tim Wu
1:51 History of platforms
2:30 Modern platform power
9:11 Amazon Marketplace as an example
13:31 The role of scale and content in Big Tech
16:36 Antitrust lessons from IBM & AT&T
19:17 Future of AI and Big Tech
20:35 Wu’s policy recommendations
29:43 Final thoughts on regulating Big Tech
WSJ’s Bold Names brings you conversations with the leaders of the bold-named companies featured in the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Hosts Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims speak to CEOs and business leaders in interviews that challenge conventional wisdom and take you inside the decisions being made in the C-suite and beyond.
Let us know what you think of the show. Email us at BoldNames@wsj.com
#Tech #Business #WSJ
