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According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah<\/a>, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits \u201cat the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.\u201d Those tailwinds powered what just became the largest venture-backed acquisition in history<\/a> \u2014 Google\u2019s $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 On this episode of TechCrunch\u2019s Equity podcast, Anthony Ha, Rebecca Bellan, and Sean O\u2019Kane sit down with Shah to dig into what made Wiz worth that price tag and more of the week\u2019s headlines. From DOGE data concerns<\/a> to Palmer Luckey\u2019s retro gaming startup<\/a> and Meta\u2019s acquisition<\/a> 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<\/a> in support of Anthropic.<\/p>\n Subscribe to Equity on YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Overcast<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X<\/a> and Threads<\/a>, at @EquityPod.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n