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Eh. Honestly, the line of "questions" was rather stupid.
"Why aren't you lobbying to make your business irrelevant" is essentially what the interviewer pushed aggressively.
Sure, I get calling out a CEO for deflecting tough questions with corporate BS. But it was a pretty dumb line of questioning in the first place.
Why isn't Google lobbying for privacy protections?
Why isn't Comcast lobbying for net neutrality?
Just make your statement and ask for comment. "Our listeners consider Intuits lobbying against tax reform that would benefit tax payers to be adversarial to their customers. What would you say to them?"
I don't know, I see Nilay's question as "why aren't you doing what's ethical?" and I always welcome that line of questioning.
I see the question as, you say you are lobbying the government to simplify the tax code but this is actually what simplifying the tax code would look like. The subtext is, y'all aren't doing what you claim.
Overall I think the guy came off pretty poorly throughout the interview.