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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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00:10:07

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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00:32:42

Ladies and gentlemen: the dregs of the SPAC boom

Equity ·

2023/08/11

This week Mary Ann and Alex got into a mix of growth stories, and some less-than-winsome on the startups that are not having the best 2023:How Lula went frugal and set itself up for a massive up-round in 2023: Mary Ann's recent reporting on Lula was perfect Equity material as it dealt with capital in motion, and a quickly-growing startup. Even more notably, Lula is in the insurtech space, part of the fintech world that has had an up-and-down few years.Weights & Biases raises $50M: Back in the day if

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00:30:26

Maybe we shouldn't sue away DEI in venture

Equity ·

2023/08/09

This week, Dominic-Madori Davis came back on the show to chat with Mary Ann and Alex about two of her latest pieces:A lawsuit targeting a grant program that provided small checks to Black women small-business owners. The context here is that there's a movement in the United States to curtail programs that seek to provide access, or opportunity to underrepresented peoples in business and education. Given venture's somewhat embarrassing investment demographics, we struggled to understand the seeming

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00:09:09

Equity Monday: Have we reached peak smartphone?

Equity ·

2023/08/07

Here’s the rundown from this morning, which saw Alex catching up from a few days off last week:Earnings season is slowing down, while global stocks slip to start the week. Crypto is not doing too much to start the week, but do recall that Coinbase earnings came last week.Peak smartphone? In the wake of Apple earnings, questions linger regarding just what is ahead for smartphones and what could get that market moving again. Thankfully for Apple shareholders, the company has done yeoman’s work to

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00:23:11

Chain Reaction: Ripple’s chief legal officer talks...

Equity ·

2023/08/04

Today, we're bringing you an episode of our sister podcast, Chain Reaction. Chain Reaction unpacks and dives deep into the latest trends, drama and news in crypto with some of the biggest names in the industry to break things down block by block for the crypto curious. Jacquelyn interviewed Stu Alderoty, chief legal officer of Ripple Labs. Stu spent most of his career working for traditional financial institutions in legal roles at firms like CIT Group, American Express and HSBC and left that world

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00:35:20

Yeah, but is that venture backable?

Equity ·

2023/08/02

This week, Alex and Mary Ann had Sara Mauskopf on the show, the CEO and co-founder of the childcare marketplace, Winnie, and a former Postmates and Twitter denizen. Here’s what we got into:The progress of Winnie over time, and how it found its niche in the childcare marketThe state of care as a venture-backable category, and where startups can find the most impact and business resultsThe reported issues at Papa and the pressures of fundraising-driven growth in care-oriented marketsAnd, of course,

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00:08:54

Equity Monday: Twitter's rebrand is a go, and we're...

Equity ·

2023/07/31

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!Stocks are higher around the world today, but the real story in equities is earnings. This week we are going to hear from AMD, Uber, Pinterest, Shopify, PayPal and Block, Apple and Amazon, Alibaba and Airbnb, Coinbase and Cloudflare. It’s a lot.In crypto-land, things are muted, but it appears that the Coinbase-SEC lawsuit had a bit more behind it than we

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00:35:37

It's always earnings season if you look hard enough

Equity ·

2023/07/28

We had our friend and colleague Kirsten Korosec on the podcast this week, meaning that Mary Ann and Alex got to stretch their legs a bit and talk things that move and beep and boop. Here's what we got into:Deals of the Week: AngelList bought Nova, taking the well-known venture service into the more traditional private equity realm; Waymo is focusing on self-driving cars instead of trucks, which has Mary Ann worried; and Alex wanted to talk about interest rates.On the subject of Earnings: Guess what

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00:31:55

What’s next for social media from someone who’s...

Equity ·

2023/07/26

This week, Alex had Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz on to chat about her upcoming book, Extremely Online, the history of online platforms, and the rise of creators.We've covered the creator economy a few times on the podcast over the years, but this addition to our historical coverage is more than worth inclusion. Here's what we got into:All the cool kids are pre-ordering Lorenz's book, which you can find here.Why online work has always been treated like a sideshow: While culture is often

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00:09:09

Please re-xeet this podcast episode

Equity ·

2023/07/24

Here’s the rundown from this morning:Stocks are mixed around the world: Chinese equities sold off while American shares were set to rise at the open. A massive run of earnings this week should shake up the stock market for tech companies and their traditional brethren alike.In crypto-land, prices are back to where they were pre-XRP decision. I don't know what to make of that, but do know that Worldcoin is still a thing and is now actually out.Twitter's new brand: All hail X, I suppose. Musk's work

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00:33:01

That's capitalism, baby!

Equity ·

2023/07/21

Here's what we got into today:Deals of the Week: Layoffs at Cameo, where fintech valuations are today and where they are going, and Egnyte's slow-burn path to an IPO.The end of VanMoof: Raising a lot of money doesn't necessitate a startup's success. Such is the case with VanMoof, which raised nine-figures and built and sold e-bikes. Now it is no more, and we have questions.CEO turnover: As the CEO of OnlyFans steps down, the gang dug into when a CEO can or should step down. Certainly some companies

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00:33:54

Venture's Q2 was calm (and that's not good)

Equity ·

2023/07/19

So, what happened in venture capital-land during Q2 2023? A lot, and not very much. We got PitchBook venture guru Kyle Stanford to come back on the podcast to riff with us on the good, the bad, and the late-stage.Here's what we got into:How did American venture perform in Q2 2023? Welcome to the new normal, and why that's actually bad news.How are Seed deals faring, and what about later-stage transactions?How bad is the slow pace of exits today, and what impact will they have on venture capital

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00:07:46

Equity Monday: Intel backs robotics startup, Twitter...

Equity ·

2023/07/17

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.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!Stocks are largely down around the world following weak Chinese economic data for the second quarter. We’re also heading back into an earnings cycle, so get ready to hear from Tesla and Netflix this week, among other

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00:32:19

We're in the pruning phase of tech layoffs

Equity ·

2023/07/14

Here's the rundown from Mary Ann and Alex:A new Chinese AI model had us wondering who is really going to win the AI war and whether governments will play a role — perhaps not the role that they are expecting.A founder that Founders Fund funded is now funding other founders at Founders Fund: Yep.Sticking to the venture theme, is it possible for AI models in venture to actually create a less biased landscape for entrepreneurs? Connetic Ventures thinks so!Two bits of good news: Tech layoffs have

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00:32:01

Is ChatGPT the iBeer of LLMs?

Equity ·

2023/07/12

This week we had a very special guest on the podcast: Matthew Lynley, one of the founding hosts of Equity and a former TechCruncher. Since his Equity days, Lynley went off and started his very own AI-focused publication called Supervised.We brought him back on the show to ask him questions in a format where we can all learn together. Here’s what we got into:From Transformers to GPT4: How attention became so critical inside of neural networks, and how transformers set the path for modern AI

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00:08:51

Equity Monday: People like Threads

Equity ·

2023/07/10

Here’s the rundown from this morning:The global stock market is looking mixed, with the leading piece of financial news dealing with inflation data in the Chinese market.On the crypto side of things, there are no massive price movements in key tokens to examine. That said, the NFT market has been turbulent in the last few days due to incentive changes as a key marketplace.An FYI: We are back in earnings season, but there’s little to report on the tech side of things this week. Expect the pace to

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00:28:58

Hey, stuck startups, reducing growth could make you...

Equity ·

2023/07/07

We're switching things up and bringing you two interviews this week, so let's niche down to a single person, think about their work and unpack the rest.Mary Ann took the lead this time, and she sat down (virtually) with Immad Akhund, the CEO and co-founder of Mercury. For those who are unfamiliar, the fintech made headlines earlier this year for how it stepped in to help fill the business banking void left in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank's collapse. Here's what the pair caught up on:Mercury's

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00:36:29

Steering through venture's global correction with the...

Equity ·

2023/07/05

Long-time Equity listeners and TechCrunch readers should be familiar with LAVCA, and association of capital managers in the Latin America region. We have reported on its data a number of times. Well, it turns out that LAVCA is part of the larger Global Private Capital Association, which keeps tabs on a host of markets that we're working to cover more carefully as startup activity becomes an increasingly global phenomenon.So to cap off the second quarter, and to get our claws into what is going on

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00:37:11

Well done, Pismo and Visa! You gave SoftBank a win

Equity ·

2023/06/30

Mary Ann and Alex are back for another busy news week chock full of deals to chew through.Here's the rundown:Deals of the Week: We think that the idea behind the recently-funded Honey Homes is excellent, but we're split about the cost. We also went over Gusto's latest financial achievements and its plans to team up with Remote.Fintech M&A: The biggest deal of the week in fintech was Visa's purchase of Pismo. We haven't had unicorn-level acquisitions lately, so this one was welcome. Elsewhere in the

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00:27:46

Nubank's CEO explains what the US could learn from...

Equity ·

2023/06/28

This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single person, think about their work and unpack the rest. Mary Ann is taking over today's interview with David Vélez, the co-founder and CEO of Nubank, the $35 billion Sao-Paulo, Brazil-based digital bank that offers credit cards, checking accounts and life insurance to consumers.Equity listeners know that digital banking has been on our minds for some time now, so naturally we were excited to have David on the show. Here's what we got into:How

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