The 5 Companies Apple Must Buy

I was talking about things Apple could buy under John Turnus, who is the new Uh CEO. Obviously Apple's philosophy of buying things is they like to buy back their own stock and technical teams, you know, like the team that built Siri. You know, the team that built uh Touch ID, they buy these like little tiny tuck-in acquisitions of technical teams that can be added to their existing product line. But not robust. Full on products.

I believe John Turner should stop buying back the shares and should take massively big swings. My way of looking at this is anything. That the iPhone Your laptop, your watch, your airpods. En their stores. can integrate with on some level. That is the way I look at it. So I asked you

If maybe we should play a game like Bill Simmons does. So explain the game. This week in Startups is brought to you by Odoo, the all-in-one business platform. Your first app is free. Get started today at Odoo.com/slash twist. Northwest Registered Agent got a new business idea? Northwest Registered Agent helps you bring it to life. Get a free domain, email. Phone number and more with no purchase required. Learn more at www.northwest registered agent dot com slash twist domain. Paypal is built for all business. Get started at PayPal dot com slash business. Oh well I they they do a a l a lot of podcasts do the sort of the draft where the idea is it's like you you take the rules the way a fantasy football or baseball draft would work, but you're applying it to A any other thing. So like I I uh the the the Simmons podcast I know they do with like action movies, like action heist movies. We're doing a draft, you know, and then my number one pick is heat, your number one is ocean's 11, and we go from sort of there. So I think that's the kind of core idea. We we picked out the pool. Which are all these potential companies that Apple maybe could buy and then will buy. And then you got Perplexity, you got Disney, you got Peloton, you got Whoop, you got Sonos, Joe AI, Win of Our Investments, Exolabs, Robinhood, tons of great choices. We base some of them on on your pre-selected picks. I think, Jacob, correct me if I'm wrong, we did actually ask uh fans and viewers.

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