A co-founder of Reddit, upvotes a group effort to buy TikTok.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Stephanie Hughes. It's Friday, and we've got plenty to talk about on this edition of Marketplace TechBites

Week in Review.

TSM announced its investing in additional $100 billion to make chips in the U.S.

Plus, a co-founder of the social media platform Reddit joins a bid to buy TikTok.

But first, let's talk about the stock market.

A number of tech companies saw their

stock prices go down earlier this week when new tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada were put

into place. That volatility continued yesterday when President Trump announced that some of those

tariffs would not be going into effect right away. I spoke with Natasha Mascarinas, a reporter

at the information, about how tariffs and a general

lack of certainty is affecting not just public equities markets, but also investments in

startups.

Startups think both short-term and long-term, depending on either if they're a second-time founder

or, you know, where they are in this moment. So there's this, you know, among the early

stages, for example, among the early stages,

for example, a startup can have as little as two months left in the bank or 16 months left

in the bank. So if you are a early stage startup, you are thinking in terms of months, not years

as much. And so to me, to me, that really reads as worries that emerge around, are you going

to be able to secure partnerships? Are you going to be able to me, that really reads as worries that emerge around, are you going to be able to secure

partnerships? Are you going to be able to raise funding? For many reasons, this being one of them,

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