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    Dave Lee is San Francisco correspondent for the Financial Times, primarily covering ecommerce and the gig economy. His main companies of interest are Amazon, Uber and Airbnb. He is also a regular contributor to FT Magazine, where he writes about societal impacts of new technologies. He has covered the technology industry for more than a decade, joining the FT in 2020 having previously been the BBC’s Silicon Valley correspondent. He graduated from the University of Lincoln.

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