Silicon Valley feels panic around Zahran Mamdani. The technical scene of New York City is not.

John Portok, CEO of Betaworks, tells WIRED that he is skeptical of the feasibility and effectiveness of many of the Mamdani campaign proposals such as free buses, or a demo program for the city’s grocery store-and I felt that his answers tend to be “public and not private”. But Portoic adds that he found Mamdani “very convincing and friendly, and an intelligent and interesting person.”

“I think it’s very good in the campaigns, as it shows a huge vacuum within the Democratic Party, which fills it very brilliantly,” says Portoic. “It is a vacuum of lack of new ideas, the lack of new people, and the lack of views. I think there is an ideal that brings it refreshing.”

A handful of questions focused on how Mamdani mayor affects the technology industry. Portoic says he asked Mamdani how he would respond to the risks that the artificial intelligence that he puts on jobs-in particular, has functions of white collars-over the next few years.

“I am surprised that this has not already become a campaign problem,” says Portoic. Mamdani says “he admitted that this was not the focus of the campaign, but it should be the focus if he was elected.” But in general, Porthweak did not feel that Mamdani’s answer was specific enough.

Ryan says he asked Mamdani about the “amazing increase” in The number of technology workers And emerging companies Its headquarters in New York City in recent years. Mamdani “admitted” the emergence of the technology sector in New York and talked about how to learn the public sphere of it. Ryan says that Mamdani has put forward some ideas, such as the presence of the city’s government that uses artificial intelligence to reduce costs and increase efficiency, and to enter a measure of 311 complaints similar to something like Domino’s pizza tracker.

However, most of the conversation with Mamdani focused on things that concern the attendees such as the New York Camp instead of businessmen. Susan Lin, the institution and administrative partner of BBG (built by Girls), tells Wire that she believed that the attendees were “there to understand who this man is, who might be our next mayor.”

“The technology industry actually does not need any tax exemptions,” Ryan told Wire. “What we need is a city where all kinds of highly smart people who are between the ages of 20 and 40 want to come work.”

In the early years after the epidemic, New York City I attracted more Technology workers have been transferred more than any city in the country, despite its existence Some nation The highest rental rates.

Mamdani was also asked about the care of comprehensive children up to 5 years, which is what he supports, and what his priority will be in the first 100 days in his post, which he said would be free buses. He was also asked about his position on the rented schools.

However, unprecedented during this meeting, it is the discourse via the Internet that wins the Mamadani, who said one of the people who attended the meeting had had a “great influence” in the world of technology.

A lot of online discourse about Mamdani does not focus on specific policies. However, the aforementioned frequently is Mamdani’s public comments on how The billionaires will not be present In a fair society in which workers are paid to some extent and there are moderate forces on wealth inequality. Individuals like the CEO of Ycombinator Garry Tan have responded Wearing shirts This says “We must have more billionaires” in the color scheme and the style of Mamdani campaign materials. (Tan, however, has especially I spoke against Mamdani Decisive In specialized high schools several times, and called the situation.Anti -Asian. “))