> In a recent talk at Columbia University, entrepreneur Steve Blank, along with Bradley Tusk, Uber's first head of policy, and Evan Burfield, author of Regulatory Hacking, discussed how some of the most exciting unicorns of the last 10 years have been launched in heavily regulated markets—and why they think that trend will only accelerate.
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> Tusk—who'd made a career in New York politics working for Chuck Schumer and Michael Bloomberg—was experienced with these regulators. He leveraged his knowledge of NYC politics, along with Uber's massive user base, in what he gleefully described as “a vicious f$&@ing campaign” to flip the city council and halt regulation blocking Uber.
> In a recent talk at Columbia University, entrepreneur Steve Blank, along with Bradley Tusk, Uber's first head of policy, and Evan Burfield, author of Regulatory Hacking, discussed how some of the most exciting unicorns of the last 10 years have been launched in heavily regulated markets—and why they think that trend will only accelerate.
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> Tusk—who'd made a career in New York politics working for Chuck Schumer and Michael Bloomberg—was experienced with these regulators. He leveraged his knowledge of NYC politics, along with Uber's massive user base, in what he gleefully described as “a vicious f$&@ing campaign” to flip the city council and halt regulation blocking Uber.