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This Week in SaaS: Should Wiz Have Accepted Google's $23BN Acquisition Offer, Crowdstrike: WTF Happens From Here: The Bull and the Bear Case & $1BN into Legal Tech in a Day with Clio and Harvey with Jason Lemkin

Jul 24, 2024
Jason Lemkin, SaaS expert, discusses Wiz rejecting Google's $23BN offer, Crowdstrike's future, and $1BN investments in LegalTech. They cover M&A, company strategies, market reactions, and the evolving SaaS industry landscape.
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  • Analyzing Google's $23BN offer for Wiz, implications of Crowdstrike's crisis, $1BN in LegalTech investments.
  • Challenges faced by tech investors, impact of Crowdstrike on global market, significance of services management.

Deep dives

The pretense in venture capital and the impact of liquidity concerns.

In the podcast, the speaker discusses the pretense in venture capital, highlighting the facade of pretending even amidst uncertainties. Throughout the episode, the speaker emphasizes the significance of liquidity concerns in various stages of venture funding. The discussion delves into the pressures faced by both early and late-stage investors in deploying capital and the underlying hopes for restored liquidity in the industry.

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