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42:57Now PlayingIt’s no secret that while Silicon Valley is flush with top talent, Washington struggles. Complex compliance regimes, low risk tolerance, poor performance evaluations, and a focus on process over outcomes hurt our government’s ability to get things done.
a16z General Partner Katherine Boyle sat down with Scott Kupor, Director of the Office of Personnel Management, and Greg Barbaccia, the United States Chief Information Officer, to discuss what’s broken, how to fix it, how government really works on the inside, and making government cool again.
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