Equity
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 for the Top 100 Business News All time chart.
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Equity Monday: Shrinking unicorns and the embar...
Alex is back with the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. Today, we are talking about meme coins, unicorns and the latest from India!
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Aaron Burr’s tech angle, blue skies, and no pho...
Wow, did we have the force of tech news with us this week. Equity has your rundown of the week starting with an update on First Republic Bank, Poparazzi's shut down, Databricks' acquisition, who's going head-to-head with Stripe, the rise of down rounds, and why BlueSky has us feeling less grey.
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The outside advantage that your investor may be...
Natasha took over TechCrunch Live with Sam Chaudhary, the founder of ClassDojo, and Chris Farmer, the founder and CEO of SignalFire to unpack what it takes to play the long game in edtech, ClassDojo's early scrappiness and tricky customer pitch, and the "outsider advantage."
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Equity Monday: Hey look, OpenAI is even richer now
Alex is back on the mic with your Monday rundown, and as usual, we had much to unpack. We're digging into OpenAI, earnings, First Republic Bank, and ARM. Oh, and startups as well!
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Is First Republic just a victim of SVB’s collapse?
This week, we're talking AI, we're talking layoffs and we're talking coffee. Natasha, Alex and Mary Ann are digging into the latest for you from copyright requests around "-GPT" to Ansa, First Republic's tanking share price, fintech venture layoffs, and earnings.
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A modern take on what an entrepreneur can, and ...
This week, Natasha interviewed Ankur Nagpal, the entrepreneur behind Teachable, Ocho, and Vibe Capital, about the future of solo GPs, how Ankur built, sold, pivoted and launched in public, and the importance of brand and succession.
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Equity Monday: Unpacking the Twitter blues
Today Alex Wilhelm is talking about Twitter Blue, Lyft, a few startup rounds, and what could kick off the next crypto supercycle.
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Early Stage 2023: IRL is B-A-C-K
This week we recorded at Early Stage, TechCrunch's event for founders who are building startups from the ground up. Alex is talking about all things Early Stage, rockets, earnings and how a certain company is cutting costs. Stay through to the end for a special cameo from TechCrunch Podcast's Darrell Etherington!
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Who captures the most value after the SaaS-acre...
Today, we’re talking about software - modern software, the stuff hosted on the cloud and the startups busy building it - with Bessemer Venture Partners' Janelle Teng. Alex and Janelle are riffing on the state of the cloud (which is also the title of Bessemer's latest data dump concerning cloud stocks), why investors are swinging back towards growth from profitability, and where VCs see AI and SaaS heading.
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Equity Monday: What's an Angry Bird worth?
Today we are talking about space, birds and startups! Alex is catching you up on the latest in the market, the launch of SpaceX's massive rocket, Rovio selling to Sega, regulation around the world, Loopin and Fleet.
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Unicorns are rare, but what about real?
This week Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex enjoyed the warming climate and the fact that there are some positive vibes in the venture market as well. Hell, we even had a nine-figure round to chew on from Clear Street! We dove into deals of the week, news that made us say, "Oh, REALLY?" along with unicorns' renewed rarity, regulation and on-the-ground dynamics at play in the AI space, and the opportunity that opportunity funds may afford venture firms.
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Founders shouldn't have to choose between menta...
This week, Natasha spoke with a founder, a psychiatrist and a venture capitalist about founder mental health, a topic that has been a conversation in Silicon Valley for as long as we can remember. The theme has gained renewed momentum due to the startup and venture downturn in general, and exacerbated by a bank failure that still has some folks reeling.
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The petty shall inherit the pennies
Today, Alex is talking about crypto, Uber, and how to be petty at scale. We dug into the world of YC startups and valuations, Uber selling part of Careem in a $400 million deal, and the Musk v. Substack battle.
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Don’t ever leak data, but especially if you’re ...
This was Y Combinator week in a sense, with the well-known accelerator showing off hundreds of startups over a two-day period. We had some thoughts about that. But! There was a lot more for Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex to dig into, so we have a little something for everyone today from Q1 numbers to deals of the week, Latin America's return to the show, and a Frank chat that frankly had us shaking our heads
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How hard was it to raise venture capital in Q1?
To celebrate the end of Q1 2023 and the start of not only another earnings cycle, but also the data deluge that we expect to arrive starting this morning, Alex spoke with PitchBook Senior Analyst Kyle Stanford. Stanford and his company are key providers of data concerning the domestic and global venture capital markets making him a perfect guest to help kickstart our look at recent venture results, and trends.
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Welcome to Q2, Equity family
Alex is back with the first episode of our Q2 run. Welcome to the new tranch of 2023! We're covering stocks and crypto, Paris cracking down on e-scooters, Zamp Finance, Fourthline, and Tesla's Q1.
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Burn, community, burn
AI? Crypto? Equity crowdfunding and former startup founders trying to bribe China? We had it all this week, friends, so please strap in and get ready for another catchup with your besties Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex.
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AI's moral compass with the responsible AI expe...
This week, Natasha interviewed a Jack of all trades in the AI world with a focus on governance: Navrina Singh. We're talking about everything from Navrina's work as the founder and CEO of CredoAI to governance going from a lonely conversation to a global focus.
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Not all unicorns are in trouble, just a lot of ...
On today's weekend rundown, Alex took a look at the global stock market, the latest on the sale of Silicon Valley Bank's commercial banking operations, Salesforce getting a reprieve from certain activist pressure after it took a cleaver to its staffing, France's crackdown on TikTok, Twitter's source code, and Turo.
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Not-so-fake dry powder, AI and the future of DAOs
What did Mary Ann and Natasha and Alex dive into today? TikTok's CEO standing before Congress on Thursday, Duolingo's new music product, a new DAO fund, the latest eToro investment, HR tech unicorns, and AI. So, so much AI.
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One of venture’s most iconic duos wants to have...
Natasha interviewed one of venture's most iconic duos: Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein of Kapor Capital. The investors recently published a book, "Closing the Equity Gap: Creating Wealth and Fostering Justice in Startup Investing," connecting scrappy stories of entrepreneurs to their investment thesis to the returns that other venture capitalists are clamoring to land.
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As banks totter, crypto is busy racking up gains
Alex is here to do our Monday show, and after a hectic few weeks, are we done with banking news? No! Here's what we got into: the UBS-Credit Suisse deal, the crypto markets have had a few good weeks, what's going on with TikTok and Bytedance, and some startup news with Parker and PitchBook.
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Don’t use Sam Altman and AI hype in the same se...
While our dear Mary Ann is away for a much needed break (and birthday celebration!), Alex and Natasha are holding down the fort. Here's what we got into this week: the M&A spree that captured Qualtrics, Cvent, and Mint Mobile, what's followed the SVB collapse, GPT-4, and why Y Combinator is scaling back from late stage.
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One founder's account of what is left behind fr...
This week, Natasha interviewed Series CEO Brexton Pham, who has been building a full-stack enterprise platform for institutions and enterprises since March 2021. Brexton was pushed out of stealth this week in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank's crash, which of course was the main topic of our conversation. What else did you expect?
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The one where Alex and Natasha catch the Equity...
Given how bonkers the last few days have been, this is not a normal show. Sure, we're talking money up top, but Alex also dragooned Natasha into running us through her amazing reporting from over the weekend on all things SVB. (Please excuse the Friends joke in the headline, we are very tired!)
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