Vergecast: how EV startup Rivian achieved a record breaking IPO

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories.

This week on The Vergecast, Nilay and Dieter, along with managing editor Alex Cranz and senior reporter Sean O’Kane, discuss electric vehicle startup Rivian becoming a publicly traded company after executing one of the biggest initial public offerings in history. This leads to a discussion on how Rivian got to this point where other EV startups have failed.

There’s a whole lot more news covered on the show, especially from Apple. This week, we saw:

And surprise! More news. Microsoft had a few announcements this week as well:

All of this and more were discussed on this week’s Vergecast. Listen here or in your preferred podcast player for the full episode.