Google weighs $23B for Wiz, startups in a second Trump admin, and Sequoia's Stripe sale | E1980
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Todays show:
Alex Wilhelm joins Jason to discuss the role of social media and rhetoric in spreading conspiracy theories in the wake of the attempt on Trump (5:43), Silicon Valley's political landscape and views on Biden and Trump’s policies (20:14), Sequoia's strategy with Stripe shares, secondary markets, and private investments (50:00), and more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show
(1:57) Reflections on the assassination attempt on Trump and media cycles
(5:43) The role of social media and rhetoric in spreading conspiracy theories
(10:02) Squarespace - Use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain at http://www.Squarespace.com/TWIST
(11:19) Political implications of post-shooting events and allure of conspiracy theories
(20:14) Silicon Valley's political landscape and views on Biden's policies
(22:31) Intercom - TWIST listeners can get 90% off Intercom’s platform at https://www.intercom.com/twist
(25:03) Trump's policies and their impact on Silicon Valley and startups
(33:31) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://www.Lemon.io/twist
(35:00) Market conditions, Google's potential acquisition of Wizz, and cybersecurity
(47:02) State-sponsored hacking and the complexity of cybersecurity
(50:00) Sequoia's strategy with Stripe shares, secondary markets, and private investments
(1:01:02) The evolving role of secondary markets in venture capital and problem-solving in capitalism
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Mentioned on the show:
Check out Polymarket trading data:
https://polymarket.com/event/will-biden-drop-out-of-presidential-race?tid=1721076355768
Don’t miss the WSJ’s big Wiz scoop:
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/google-near-23-billion-deal-for-cybersecurity-startup-wiz-6
Alex’s take on the deal
https://www.cautiousoptimism.news/p/why-google-may-spend-23b-buying-wiz
The Axios piece on what Sequoia is cooking up for Stripe shares:
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/15/sequoia-capital-stripe
And you can find the OneStream IPO docs here:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1889956/000095017024083395/onestream_s-1a.htm
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm/
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| 0:00.0 | This also leads to a lot of questions about the failure of what happened in all of this because now you have all this information like how did this person get on the roof is the secret service qualified why did they let Trump get up three or four times to pump his fist when like there could be a second shooter like all of this is are all valid questions that will be answered in time but the idea that this person is the vessel of a grand conspiracy theory is kind of hard to believe. |
| 0:27.6 | I mean, maybe it's a 1% chance or 0.1% chance, but this is the world we live in. |
| 0:31.2 | Everybody wants to process information. |
| 0:33.0 | Just if you're listening to this and you're wondering how to manage media, |
| 0:36.1 | understand that you get to watch citizen journalism and conspiracy theories figure it out. |
| 0:40.5 | Sometimes they'll be right and split the arrow like, you know, like a miracle and 99% of time they're going to just be totally jumping the fence and making like no sense and being complete lunatics. |
| 0:51.5 | Other times they're going to win a Pulitzer and |
| 0:53.1 | they're going to break the news so just be media savvy folks. |
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| 1:34.8 | I.O slash twist. All right everybody welcome back to this week in startups. It's |
| 1:39.3 | July 15th on a pretty consequential day. |
| 1:44.4 | Alex Wilhelm is with me again. |
| 1:46.8 | Welcome back to the program, Alex. |
| 1:49.3 | Hey, yeah, not much going on. |
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