With President Joe Biden dropping out of the race, Vice President Kamala Harris could become the new Democratic nominee.

In announcing his plans, Biden offered his “full support and endorsement for Kamala to be our party’s nominee this year,” while Harris said her “intent is to win and earn this nomination.” That said, it is unclear whether other Democratic politicians will challenge her for the nomination at an open convention, or through some other selection process.

If Harris is elected, Democrats will have a presidential candidate with Bay Area roots (she was born in Oakland) and a long relationship with the tech industry. (Donald Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance also has deep ties to Silicon Valley.) She served as San Francisco’s district attorney and then California’s attorney general before being elected to the Senate in 2016.

VCs like John Doerr and Ron Conway were among her early supporters, and as a presidential candidate she was quickly endorsed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. Other industry figures, including Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, were more restrained or called for an open convention.

Some industry critics have complained that as attorney general, she hasn’t done enough to curb the power of tech giants as they’ve grown. During the 2020 presidential campaign, when rival Elizabeth Warren called for breaking up Big Tech, Harris was asked whether companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook should be broken up. Instead, they should be regulated on privacy.

At the same time, she’s been willing to criticize tech CEOs and call for more regulation. As a senator, she took on major social networks over misinformation, and during her 2016 presidential campaign, she told the New York Times, “Tech companies need to be regulated in a way that we can make sure that the American consumer can be confident that their privacy is not compromised.”

As vice president, Harris also spoke about the potential for regulating AI, saying she and President Biden “reject the false choice that suggests we can either protect the public or foster innovation.”

Biden had issued an executive order calling on companies to set new standards around AI development, and Harris said these “voluntary commitments are a first step toward a safer AI future with more to come, because as history has shown, in the absence of regulation and strong government oversight, some tech companies choose to prioritize profits over the well-being of their customers, the safety of our communities, and the stability of our democracies.”

Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz recently pointed out that concerns that the Biden administration will “overregulate” AI is one of their reasons for supporting Donald Trump.

On another hot-button issue, a recent bill that would ban TikTok if parent company ByteDance didn’t sell it, Harris said: “We have to deal with the owner, and we have national security concerns for the owner of TikTok, but we have no intention of banning TikTok.”

Harris has been less vocal on cryptocurrency issues, though she is widely believed to support the Biden administration’s crypto regulations.