Watch our live interview with Gavin Newsom

Gavin Newsom, who is running to be California's governor in 2018, has championed innovative policies since he entered public office in 1997, first as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, then as mayor of San Francisco and now as lieutenant governor of California.

A longtime political visionary on issues of equality, the environment, homelessness and health care, today Newsom insists that tech companies need to take an active role in fixing socioeconomic problems caused by their success.

Watch Kara Swisher’s live interview with him at our Code Enterprise conference in San Francisco starting around 12:30 pm PT/ 3:30 pm ET.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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