Digital surveillance risks post-Roe v. Wade ruling with Legal Voice’s Kim Clark + PE firm acquires Zendesk for $10.2B | E1494

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

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🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today, we bring on Kim Clark, an attorney at Legal Voice, who reached out to Molly after listening to our shows last week that mentioned the impacts of surveillance on healthcare privacy, notably abortion (2:13). And in related news, today’s Startup of the day is Stardust, an end-to-end encrypted Period Tracking App (39:13). Then, we cover a non-Roe v. Wade story: Zendesk will be acquired by an investor group in an all-cash transaction valuing it at around $10.2B (42:45).

(0:00) Jason and Molly intro today’s show!
(2:13) Roe v. Wade overturned: Kim Clark, Senior Attorney at Seattle-based Legal Voice, joins to discuss
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(12:06) Digital surveillance of pregnant women or women trying to become pregnant
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(39:13) Startup of the Day: Stardust, a privacy-first Period Tracker App
(42:45) Zendesk has agreed to be acquired by investor group in all-cash transaction valuing it at around $10.2 billion
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0:00.0	All right, everybody. Welcome back. It is Monday. It's going to be a big show today on this
0:05.0	week in startups. I hope you relaxed over the weekend and listen to our wonderful Sunday show
0:10.0	BC Sunday School in this weekend climate startups. Yeah, and today we're going to bring you
0:13.6	Kim Clark. She's an attorney at legal voice. And she actually reached out to Molly over LinkedIn
0:18.1	after listening to our shows where we mentioned we talk about the impacts of the surveillance state
0:23.3	regarding health care privacy notable Lee abortions. We're going to talk a little bit about
0:27.6	Roe v. Wade at the top of the show. Yeah, and Kim is not just a lawyer focusing on reproductive
0:34.0	rights. She's also an angel investor. So there's a whole bunch of tech and startup angle to this.
0:40.1	Also, it's a great conversation. Kim is amazing. And then related today's startup of the day is
0:45.2	star dust and end-to-end encrypted period tracking app privacy for your period people.
0:51.3	Absolutely. And then we're going to cover some non-roe v. Wade stories as well. Zendes is going to be
0:56.3	acquired by an investor group and an all-cash transaction value in them at about $10 billion. That
1:01.9	is a true sign of a bottom when private companies with a lot of cash, a lot of revenue, public
1:06.8	companies get taken private. So we'll have a little talk about that. It's going to be a great show.
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