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Equity

TechCrunch, Rebecca Bellan, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, Max Zeff, Theresa Loconsolo

The intersection of technology, startups, and venture capital touches everything now. That’s why Equity, TechCrunch"s flagship podcast, digs into the business of startups for entrepreneurs and enthusiasts alike. Every Wednesday and Friday, TechCrunch reporters keep you up-to-date on the world of business, technology, and venture capital. Equity is ranked the No.2 podcast in the Top 100 Venture Capital All time leaderboard on Goodpods—As well as No.17 for the Top 100 Finance All time chart and No.32

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00:31:44

Don't forget to jargon check your AI

Equity ·

2023/09/27

This week on Equity, Alex was joined by Nathan Baschez, the CEO and founder of Lex, an AI-infused online writing tool that recently raised capital. Together, we're talking through a few key topics that have been top of mind in recent months:How many AI-powered, or AI-using writing tools can the market support?How far into the generative AI moment we are, and how much we should anticipate in the form of technology improvements?And then we discussed the nuts and bolts aspects of pricing an AI-powered

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00:09:34

Equity Monday: Everyone loves Anthropic

Equity ·

2023/09/25

Equity is back from Disrupt and fired up for the rest of the year. Here’s what Alex got into today:Stocks are not peppy to start the week, while crypto prices have also moderated in recent days.Alex could not not talk about the Cisco-Splunk deal, mostly to promise that he’ll finish that post today come hell or high water.The Amazon + Anthropic news is the biggest item of the day. A $1.25 billion deal that could stretch to $4 billion is no small fee. And with Google and Amazon and Anthropic tied up

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00:22:27

Are you feeling Disrupted?

Equity ·

2023/09/22

The Equity crew is back with another live recording from the Moscone Center in San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Alex, Kirsten and Becca sat down to recap a very busy (and dare we say successful) event, and walk through our favorite moments for the listeners who couldn't make it out this year.Here's what we got into:Providing early liquidity to founders and employeesWhat advice VCs are giving their early stage founders Why Cruise might join the call to ban human drivers in city centersAnd

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00:29:38

Equity Live: Self-flying helicopters, AI and the...

Equity ·

2023/09/20

We were live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023! Yes, even though our dear friend and colleague Mary Ann had to handle a family emergency, the larger Equity family rallied to put on a rollicking early-morning show at the venue. From the Builders' stage where Alex had to introduce himself, Kirsten Korosec and Becca Szkutak rounded out our hosting crew and we had a blast.Here's the rundown:Instacart went public! Finally, at last, at long last, Instacart is a public company. It priced at $30, the top-end of

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00:32:58

We'll probably retire before Databricks IPOs

Equity ·

2023/09/15

Here's what Mary Ann, Alex and Kirsten got into:More layoffs at Divvy Homes: More cuts at a company that was once richly valued and heavily venture-backed. Rising interest rates are having a ripple effect across startup-land.Databricks is big, and now richer: With $500 million in a new Series I, Databricks is now worth more money and has fresh capital to continue working on AI.Lime, just go public already: What is profitable and private and a tease? Lime. Well, that last bit is a stretch, but really

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00:30:53

What’s more venture capital than space lasers?

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2023/09/13

This week, we brought TechCrunch+ senior climate reporter Tim De Chant on to talk climate tech, hardware breakthroughs, and why we have a whole stage this year at Disrupt focused on sustainability.On that last point, perhaps you have gone outside recently. Extreme weather around the world, warming oceans, fires — it's a mess out there. That's the bad news. The good news is that a number of startups are working hard to build new technologies that could shoothe our struggling planet. And perhaps make

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00:09:39

Equity Monday: Instacart, Klaviyo and the art of the...

Equity ·

2023/09/11

Here's what we got into on the show today:Instacart IPO: We have a first price range for Instacart! And the company is going to take a roughly $30 billion haircut on the valuation it raised at back in 2021. Still worth north of $7 billion by our math , Instacart is set to raise a lot of money at a multi-billion price. Hard to get too worried about that. (Even more, the company's fully-diluted valuation range is, if we are doing our sums correctly, $8.6 billion to $9.3 billion.)Klaviyo IPO: Also

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00:39:06

Who shuts down the shut down-ers?

Equity ·

2023/09/08

Here's what Mary Ann, Alex and Kirsten got into:Mentra wants to help neurodivergent jobseekers find ideal jobs: We love a startup that is doing good for itself and doing good for others. This deal that Mary Ann wanted to chat through seems to check both boxes.SimpleClosure raises $1.5 million: What happens if your startup dies, and you need to wind down? You might need a simple way to close things up, right? Enter SimpleClosure.Argo AI founders are building something new: What just raised more than

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00:51:45

Y Combinator is still paranoid (re-run)

Equity ·

2023/09/06

While the Equity crew prepares for another Y Combinator Demo Day, we're throwing it back to when Natasha and Alex caught up with current YC Partner and Managing Director of YC Early Stage, Michael Seibel. The main question on the pair's mind was how is YC evolving to meet a changed market? Seibel doesn't often do press -- and neither does YC -- so the interview was used to connect the dots on news from the accelerator, cross check top trends from the 2022 summer batch and ask about some of the

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00:09:55

Equity Tuesday: Arm's IPO won't resurrect...

Equity ·

2023/09/05

Here's what Alex got into this morning:Earnings Season Never Ends: Gitlab, Asana, UiPath, Docusign, Rent the Runway and others will report this week.Crypto Down Bad: Prices for major cryptoassets are flat this morning, while the crypto venture picture is looking up to some degree.Arm Sets IPO Range: Shares of Arm are expected to sell for $47 to $51 per share, according to the company. The question for investors is whether to value the company on its trailing results, or future profits.More on the

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00:32:00

What’s the opposite of a lean startup?

Equity ·

2023/09/01

Here’s the show rundown:Teamshares: Here’s an interesting one. Teamshares has raised a lot of money and is buying a lot of SMBs. But that’s just the start. It also plans to allow employees of those companies to buy most of their stock over time, while serving up centralized fintech services to all its sub-companies. Who doesn’t love to chat about a new model?MoonPay’s new venture arm: Crypto payment infra company MoonPay is getting into the venture game, with a focus on crypto, gaming, and fintech

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00:36:43

What founders can escape venture's no-man's land?

Equity ·

2023/08/30

This week, Alex spoke to Anu Hariharan, who’s previously worked with a16z, sits on Brex’s board, and more recently has been investing in later-stage companies at Y Combinator. She's also working on something new.Hariharan recently tweeted about how "great" founders were successfully guiding their companies towards cash flow positivity. Since that very interesting post, both Instacart (a former Y Combinator company) and Klaviyo have filed to go public. And both have super strong cash flows.Our chat

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00:08:48

Equity Monday: IPOs are back and the Equity crew is...

Equity ·

2023/08/28

As a small heads up, we had a bonus show over the weekend that is well worth your time! Alright, here’s what’s on the show this morning:Stocks are up around the world: A good note to start the week on, of course. In the meantime, the crypto market is still dragging. We’re back to minimal week-over-week price movements.Tech IPOs are back: After a drought that will be talked about for years, it’s raining tech IPOs again! Instacart and Klaviyo have filed their Form S-1s to go public, and we are busy

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00:22:31

Gen-Z is rewriting the rules of the Internet, and...

Equity ·

2023/08/26

Why the extra edition? Because Battery Ventures dropped an interesting report on Gen-Z and we wanted to talk about it.Alex got Courtney Chow, a vice president at Battery and one of the report's authors to chat about it. You can read the report itself here.This is what we got into:The fracturing of culture: Gen-Z is large, and very diverse. The trend away from monolithic cultural primacy that began years ago has accelerated with the generation, making culture itself more personal, and more distinct

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00:37:03

Startups that are Ramp-ing up, and startups that are...

Equity ·

2023/08/25

This is our Friday show, and we’re talking about the week’s biggest startup and tech news. Here's what Mary Ann, Alex and Kirsten Korosec got into:Nvidia blew the doors off with its earnings report. We talked through some of the high-level numbers and marveled at the company's growth. TechCrunch has more on the matter here.Ramp raises $300M: In this market, a multi-billion-dollar valuation is a win for a fintech, even if Ramp's new price tag is a bit lower than it was previously. So, while Ramp

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00:26:55

LatAm 'plays on hard mode' according to VC Mercedes Bent

Equity ·

2023/08/23

This week, Mary Ann spoke with Mercedes Bent, Partner on the early stage team at Lightspeed Ventures and co-lead of Lightspeed’s LatAm region and angel fund. The pair chewed through a number of topics, including:How and why Mercedes started investing in Latin America, and why she thinks the region is more resilient than othersWhy we're early in the hype cycle when it comes to the intersection of AI and fintechWhy generative AI and fintech aren't always the best combination and much more.Equity is

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00:08:59

Equity Monday: Robotaxis hit a speed bump and IPOs...

Equity ·

2023/08/21

Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. Here’s the rundown from this morning, with real news from the crypto-front, and even a neat startup round to round it out!Stocks are up in most of the world, China apart. The Chinese economy is a real topic of conversation lately, mostly centered around concerns regarding credit appetite, debt levels, housing costs, and government activity.In the crypto-world, prices are sharply lower

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00:33:49

Some good news, some Better.com news

Equity ·

2023/08/18

This week Mary Ann and Alex were joined by our regular guest host Kirsten Korosec.Here's what the gang got into:FTX's former CEO SBF is heading to jail: We struggled to find much pity for the former celebrity executive.Better.com is going public: After much controversy Better.com's SPAC merger is a go. The deal is a fundraising mechanism by our understanding, though we had a bit of a tough time coming up with a bull case for the company in the present moment.Monday.com's growth: Alex has kept tabs

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00:37:31

The software market, AI moats, and when to go public...

Equity ·

2023/08/16

This week, Alex had Amplitude CEO Spenser Skates on the show to talk about the SaaS market journey since his company went public in late 2021, which happened to be right before investor sentiment changed.After a successful IPO, Amplitude warned analysts and investors alike in early 2022 that it was seeing some macroeconomic pressure, which led to its stock being sharply repriced. (That happened to most companies eventually, to be fair.)Since then, the digital analytics company has shaken up its

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00:10:07

Equity Monday: Another $100M for AI, why not

Equity ·

2023/08/14

Here’s the rundown from this morning:Worries about the Chinese economy dragged down Asian shares this morning; the equity picture was more mixed in Europe and the United States. Meanwhile, why is crypto so slow lately? What happened to price volatility?On the earnings front, we're looking ahead to Monday.com, Getty, Cisco, Bill.com and Palo Alto Networks this week.News that Anthropic is raising another $100 million got us talking about a few other AI rounds that are in the pipeline; the gist is that

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