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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today, on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Margaux MacColl and Anthony Ha are digging into the latest tech and startup news from inauguration week in the U.S., including the new administration’s approach to startups and the potential transparency challenges that come with it. Listen to the full episode to hear about: TikTok’s rapid return and which apps are waiting in the wings – just in case. What is Stargate, and why are OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and others committing $100 billion to the project? Why some shareholders are walking away from Divvy Homes’ acquisition with nothing. The IPO market for 2025: Who’s planning to make their debut, and who’s reconsidering going public? Equity will be back next week, so stay tuned! Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. For the full episode transcript, for those who prefer reading over listening, check out our full archive of episodes here. Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. We’d also like to thank TechCrunch’s audience development team. Thank you so much for listening, and we'll talk to you next time.

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0:00.0	This episode is presented by Invest Puerto Rico.
0:03.6	If you believe your business can go anywhere, Puerto Rico is the place.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechRunch's flagship podcast about the business of startups.
0:25.2	Today is Friday, January 24th, 2025. I'm Kirsten Koresak, transportation editor at TechCrunch.
0:33.0	I'm Margaret McCall. I'm a senior reporter at TechCrunch. And I'm Anthony Ha, the weekend editor at TechCrunch.
0:38.3	Ah, Anthony.
0:39.3	We became so close over the weekend because there was a little bit of drama with our good friends over at TikTok.
0:47.3	Can you please catch me up?
0:49.3	Sure.
0:50.3	I will try to do the abbreviated version so that this doesn't end up becoming the entire episode.
0:56.1	Justin, you and I often talk on the weekend, which is fine for me because I'm working.
0:59.7	I don't know what you're doing.
1:00.6	Trying to have a weekend.
1:02.0	Yeah, so TikTok went down this weekend, but probably for a lot less time than people
1:06.7	were expecting because the law that the shorthand is basically to divest or ban law or seller ban law
1:13.3	on TikTok took effect on Sunday, seeing as how TikTok has not sold or divested, it seems like that
1:18.6	was the end of TikTok. But then Trump started saying, no, no, no, like this should get pushed back
1:23.9	because I want to save TikTok. And then the Biden administration started to say,
1:28.7	hey, we're not going to enforce this law. It's cool. Like just do whatever you want. But then
1:34.0	TikTok went down anyway. I think basically they said that particularly their service providers,
1:39.4	like Oracle, which, you know, does their hosting. They weren't going to take the chance they
1:42.9	were going to, you know, end up and dragged into court because they continued to keep TikTok up.
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