{"id":10329,"date":"2026-03-16T15:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/the-32b-acquisition-that-one-vc-is-calling-the-deal-of-the-decade-equity-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:44:11","slug":"the-32b-acquisition-that-one-vc-is-calling-the-deal-of-the-decade-equity-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/the-32b-acquisition-that-one-vc-is-calling-the-deal-of-the-decade-equity-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"The $32B acquisition that one VC is calling the &#8216;Deal of the Decade&#8217; | Equity Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits \u201cat the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and <!--more--> security spend.\u201d Those tailwinds powered what just became the largest venture-backed acquisition in history \u2014 Google&#8217;s $32 billion deal, finalized after a declined 2024 offer, antitrust review on both sides of the Atlantic, and an extra $9 billion to sweeten the pot.<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of TechCrunch&#8217;s Equity podcast, Anthony Ha, Rebecca Bellan, and Sean O&#8217;Kane sit down with Shah to dig into what made Wiz worth that price tag and more of the week&#8217;s headlines. From DOGE data concerns to Palmer Luckey&#8217;s retro gaming startup and Meta&#8217;s acquisition of viral AI agent social network Moltbook. Plus, the latest in the Anthropic vs. DoD saga as tech workers at OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft sign on to a legal brief in support of Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.<\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>\n00:00 Intro<br \/>\n00:16 DOGE employee stole social security numbers<br \/>\n02:53 AI note-taking wearables: Taya &amp; Sandbar<br \/>\n09:18 Palmer Lucky&#8217;s retro gaming startup Mod Retro<br \/>\n13:39 Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbot<br \/>\n18:54 Google&#8217;s $32B Wiz acquisition with Shardul Shah<br \/>\n28:41 Anthropic&#8217;s lawsuit against the DoD<br \/>\n38:40 Outro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits \u201cat the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10333,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}