It's difficult to predict exactly how the incoming US government will affect US tech and services, but the consequence of failure to manage and mitigate risk to individuals (whether american or rest of world) seems worryingly severe<p>How will YC companies navigate this new landscape, to protect people (and their data)?
Slow down your investments until the nature of the chaos is understood.<p>If you have federal exposure, and know people with juice in MAGA circles, start sucking up. Otherwise, you need a lobbying strategy. These guys hate civil service, and intend to break the agencies, so knowing cronies is essential.<p>Start scrubbing political content from social media and blogs. With fascists, you need to suck it up and work with them, or not. If applicable, de-empathize your wokeness and progressive politics, which shouldn’t be associated with your business anyway.