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This Week in Startups · 2025-04-05 · 92 min · 18,511 words

Rippling Targets $16B, Market Chaos, TikTok Timeout, and Office Hours | E2107

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what this means is all the independents All the moderates, let's call them Clinton Democrats, you know, business people. Mm-hmm. Who quickly bent the knee to kind of smooth things over with Trump? You know, those people We're kinda doing that in a very pragmatic way.

Mark Zuckerberg being probably the ultimate example of it, right? He bought a house in D C now. He bann from reaching billions of people, and then now he's all in on Trump. I think those folks If this becomes cataclysmic and it's affecting their business, they could be pragmatic and say, You know what? Maybe we should have more balance in the other, you know, arms of government. And maybe tariffs shouldn't be done by emergency. edict, which I think is how they're being executed now. And they should be done through the Congress. And of course, there are people doing that. So all this chaos for startups means fundraising is going to get harder, selling into customers, especially like Fortune five hundreds.

It's gonna be harder. There will be only one thing that's easier. Can you guess? I was gonna say hiring'cause there's gonna be more people Ah, yes, nailed it. It's gonna be easier to hire people. So look for the purple hiring rings on LinkedIn.

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