{"id":84610,"date":"2025-12-13T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/netflix-is-showing-hollywood-what-happens-when-a-startup-grows-up\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:44:40","slug":"netflix-is-showing-hollywood-what-happens-when-a-startup-grows-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/netflix-is-showing-hollywood-what-happens-when-a-startup-grows-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix is showing Hollywood what happens when a startup grows up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A baby was born in a Waymo this week, and it wasn&#8217;t even the first one. <\/p>\n<p>What started as a <!--more--> novelty story quickly became a reminder of how autonomous vehicles have quietly become part of everyday life, complete with all the messiness that entails. The real coming-of-age story this week, however, wasn&#8217;t happening in San Francisco&#8217;s robotaxis. It was playing out in Hollywood, where Netflix made an $82 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery&#8217;s streaming and studio business. <\/p>\n<p>Today on TechCrunch&#8217;s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec and Anthony Ha discuss what happens when the startup that used to mail you DVDs grows up and tries to buy a legacy entertainment empire as well as the other headlines that caught their eye.  Plus they get into the rise of AI circular deals and what CoreWeave&#8217;s CEO says about companies investing in their own customers.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Equity on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baby was born in a Waymo this week, and it wasn&#8217;t even the first one. What started as a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}