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: 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.
35 min
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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
38 min
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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.
35 min
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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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Flat is the new up, down is the new flat, dead ...
This week, Alex, Mary Ann and Natasha gathered to riff through the week's biggest startup and venture news, starting with the situation at Silicon Valley Bank. Then we dove into deals of the week with Roami, Qualtrics, and the VC-AI affair at Upfront Summit. We dug deeper on the latest ADHD startup boom, how fintech investors are coping in the new venture climate and how some female VCs are navigating bias.
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Dear startups, your developers and engineers ar...
This week, Natasha interviewed Lizzie Matusov, the co-founder and CEO of Quotient, which wants to fix the "leaky pipeline problem" in tech onboarding that doesn't set up engineers for success.
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Equity Monday: We'd give an arm and a leg for a...
Alex is ready to kickoff the week with our Monday show, and here's what we have for you this morning: a look at stocks around the world and crypto's recent price swings, IPO news (huzzah!) from ARM, a fintech startup's massive round, Tesla price cuts, and more.
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Bonus Episode: Say Hello to the Startup Battlef...
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for—the winner is announced! In this episode, we get to know the winner of the 2022 Startup Battlefield competition. We’ll hear what’s next for their company and get insight from TechCrunch staff, VCs, and audience members on why they were the right choice.
Be sure to check out all of the other podcasts in the TechCrunch Podcast Network: Found, Equity, The TechCrunch Podcast, Chain Reaction and The TechCrunch Live Podcast.
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Why hasn’t generative AI come up with something...
Mary Ann, Becca, and Alex gathered to riff through the week's biggest startup and venture news including: Divert and Trust & Will's latest rounds, what's happening in the land of NFTs, TechCrunch's Boston City Spotlight, AI vs crypto in venture hype cycles, and Amazon's unlikely partnership.
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This is fintech's 'Noah's Ark Year'
This week, Mary Ann interviewed Mark Goldberg, partner and fintech lead at Index Ventures. The pair talked about: the party that was 2021 and the hangover that was 2022, Mark's Twitter prediction that raised some eyebrows ON twitter, and why 2023 is shaping up to be a survival of the fittest.
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