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9:20 AM PDT · March 13, 2026
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According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the halfway of 3 tailwinds: AI, cloud, and information spend.” Those tailwinds powered what conscionable became the largest venture-backed acquisition successful history — Google’s $32 cardinal deal, finalized aft a declined 2024 offer, antitrust reappraisal connected some sides of the Atlantic, and an other $9 cardinal to sweeten the pot.
On this occurrence of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Anthony Ha, Rebecca Bellan, and Sean O’Kane beryllium down with Shah to excavation into what made Wiz worthy that terms tag and much of the week’s headlines. From DOGE information concerns to Palmer Luckey’s retro gaming startup and Meta’s acquisition of viral AI cause societal web Moltbook. Plus, the latest successful the Anthropic vs. DoD saga arsenic tech workers astatine OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft sign connected to a ineligible brief successful enactment of Anthropic.
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Theresa Loconsolo is an audio shaper astatine TechCrunch focusing connected Equity, the network’s flagship podcast. Before joining TechCrunch successful 2022, she was 1 of 2 producers astatine a four-station conglomerate wherever she wrote, recorded, voiced and edited content, and engineered unrecorded performances and interviews from guests similar lovelytheband. Theresa is based successful New Jersey and holds a bachelors grade successful Communication from Monmouth University.
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