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2021 welcome to the new year our show that kicks off your week with look at what is

going on in the worlds of tech, startups, and markets today is a fun day for the show as our founding producer Chris is off for a few weeks to welcome a new arrival.

In his stead is Grace Mindenhall, who's not only super brilliant at her job, but if you listen

to the Saturday episode, you've already heard

her work.

All right, let's go.

Okay, let's start off with the weekend.

We are in one of those periods when the technology news world is fully

intersected with another realm, this time the political. Now over the weekend it became clear that

President Trump is being generally deplatformed.

After being removed from Twitter,

Striped decided it no longer wanted to process payments for his campaign,

and the list of tech companies that decided to stop serving him

or his political efforts grew rather long.

Now, of course, you might not be super annoyed

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