b'So, what was on our minds this morning?\\nHeadlines: The Twilio-Segment deal is real, happening, and is priced about where we expected. Big names in the ex-China Internet want to make encryption worse. And, how the United States government would break up Google is becoming clearer by the week.\\nOn the Twilio Segment deal, as TechCrunch and Forbes anticipated, the transaction came in around $3.2 billion, forming something of a API monster from their combined form. As we noted on the show, a lot of investors made a mint from the transaction.\\nAirkit has raised $28 million while in stealth since 2017. What does it do? Per Forbes, it\'s a "low-code platform" that wants to "improve customer engagement." That\'s notably similar to what Segment does.\\nFlash Express raised $200 million, as the on-demand and delivery spaces stay hot.\\nAnd Razorpay raised $100 million at a valuation of $1 billion, meaning that we have just witnessed the birth of yet another fintech unicorn.\\nAnd, finally, warm public markets mean that the startup and VC game will stay afoot, even if we see a pre-election dip in IPOs.'