Competition in the American tech sector is being gobbled up by the largest players, and it's threatening our entire industry.

I've spent a career working in tech as a software engineer. And I believe regulated markets are the best way to build and deliver innovative products.

When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing.

Without competition, Silicon Valley will stop taking risks and will stop innovating.

In 1999, I was running my first tech start-up and learning the Unreal Engine, the tool that would define my career as a game developer, when news of Columbine ground all work to a standstill.

I love video games dearly.

Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I've been lost in this world ever since. When I was scared because my church said people like me were going to burn in hell, 'Final Fantasy,' 'Dragon Warrior' and 'Super Mario' offered a lifeboat.

I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.

I am the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a Boston-based studio that's an industry leader in making games for women. We are passionate about creating narrative games for the avalanche of new consumers who don't fit the old gamer stereotype.