Innovate and Invest

Sonia Ketkar

Tech and AI are reshaping business models, driving innovation, and transforming industries and markets. Innovate & Invest brings you in-depth conversations with the experts — researchers, practitioners, and the people who've gone deepest — to build the understanding that sharpens pattern recognition and drives higher-conviction innovation and investment decisions. For founders, investors, and anyone building or backing the next wave of innovation.

Episodes

  1. May 4

    Ghost Exits: How Startup Exits are Changing

    Samuel Weinstein joins the host and shares his insights on how Big Tech is redesigning how it invests in innovative startups and why startups are choosing different exits We covered topics including - What changed between the first attempt and recent successful acquisition of cloud security startup Wiz by Google for $32 billion Shifting antitrust policy enforcement over the years and more recently, from the Biden to the Trump administration How Big Tech is adapting to the changing policy environment and industry forces and redesigning how it invests in innovative startups Why startups are staying private longer New startup sale structures or ghost exits through centaurs and reverse acquihires Whether these new structures are here to stay References No Exit by Broughman, Brian J. and Wansley, Matthew and Weinstein, Samuel, No Exit (June 23, 2025). 100 N.Y.U. Law Review 1481 (2025), Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 5316792, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-18, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5316792 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5316792 The Uncomfortable Truths About Reverse Acquihires: Why tech companies may have no choice

    36 min
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Tech and AI are reshaping business models, driving innovation, and transforming industries and markets. Innovate & Invest brings you in-depth conversations with the experts — researchers, practitioners, and the people who've gone deepest — to build the understanding that sharpens pattern recognition and drives higher-conviction innovation and investment decisions. For founders, investors, and anyone building or backing the next wave of innovation.

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    Sonia Ketkar
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