Dominic-Madori Davis caught up with founder and former CEO of PopSockets ⁠David Barnett⁠ to talk about how he scaled from a Boulder garage, stood up to Amazon at a $10–20 million cost, and eventually handed off the CEO role to someone who'd grown up inside the company. 

On this episode of TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Alex Bores, New York Assembly member and congressional candidate. Bores sponsored New York's first-of-its-kind AI safety law the RAISE Act — and quickly became the target of a ⁠Silicon Valley super PAC with $125 million to spend⁠ on attack ads. 

On this episode of ⁠Equity, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Jacquelyn Melinek, CEO of Token Relations and host of the Talking Tokens and Crypto in America podcasts, to make sense of how the market has changed and what in the world of crypto is built to last. 

Equity⁠ hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Rebecca Bellan unpack how creators are diversifying beyond ads, whether their model can scale beyond the top 1%, everything happing at India's AI Impact Summit, and more of the week's headlines.

On this episode of TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Rebecca Bellan caught up with ⁠Darren Mowry⁠, Google Cloud’s vice president of global startups to discuss what he’s seeing across the startup ecosystem, how Google Cloud is competing for AI startups, and what founders should be thinking about as they scale. 

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the ⁠disbanding of its mission alignment team⁠ to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature.  On this episode of TechCrunch’s ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O'Kane dig into the week's biggest deals and departures, from billion-dollar bets on fusion and robotics to the tech exodus reshaping AI companies. 

On this episode of TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Glean’s CEO and founder Arvind Jain at Web Summit Qatar to break down how enterprises are thinking about AI architecture, what's driving consolidation, and what's real versus hype in the agent space. 

Today on ⁠Equity⁠, TechCrunch AI editor Russell Brandon sits down with the founding team of AI lab Flapping Airplanes to discuss why investors wrote a $180 million check for a lab with no product, what becomes possible with radically more efficient AI, and why they're prioritizing creativity over credentials. 

TechCrunch Venture and Startups editor Julie Bort talked with Jennifer Li about where a16z sees this AI super cycle going next, including the talent crunch hitting AI-native startups, why search infrastructure matters more than people think, and what kinds of companies are actually getting funded right now. 

Today on Equity,⁠ the crew discusses Uber's AV partnership strategy, why Waabi's "simulation-first" approach might be different, and more of the week's headlines from SpaceX, Palmer Luckey, and more. 

Rebecca Bellan spoke with ⁠Greg Martin⁠, Managing Director at Rainmaker Securities, to discuss why SpaceX's IPO feels different, how tech employees are cashing out through secondary markets before companies go public, and what investors are actually looking for in pre-IPO shares. 

Today on TechCrunch’s ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O'Kane dig into why the AI world is suddenly obsessed with health care, what other products can expect an AI-makeover, and more. 

Today on TechCrunch’s ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane break down ⁠everything we saw at CES 2026⁠ and more deals from the week that caught our eye. 

VC Vanessa Larco, who's been investing in consumer and prosumer for years, thinks we're about to see a shift in how consumers spend time online, with AI powering “concierge-like” services. Today on Equity, Rebecca Bellan sat down with Larco to talk about why consumer is back, what OpenAI won't kill, and where the real opportunities are hiding. 

⁠Fizz⁠ is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok. Dominic Madori Davis sat down with ⁠Fizz’s co-founder and CEO Teddy Solomon from this year's Disrupt⁠, digging into the company's plans for expansion and why he thinks social media stopped being social.    

TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ crew is bringing 2025 to a close and getting ahead on the year to come with our annual predictions episode! The group tackles everything from why AI agents didn't live up to the hype in 2025 (but probably will in 2026), to how Hollywood will push back against AI-generated content, to why VCs are facing a serious liquidity crisis.  

Is the OR ready for AI? Equity caught up with Conor McGinn, co-founder and CEO of Akara, the startup that recently landed a spot on ⁠Time's Best Inventions of 2025⁠ and is building what’s essentially air traffic control for hospitals using thermal sensors and AI.   

What went wrong for three once-promising hardware companies? Equity is discussing the latest wave of bankruptcies, plus ⁠Amazon's massive OpenAI bet ⁠and ⁠Trump's new approach⁠ to AI regulation. 

Today on TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Kirsten Korosec sat down with Jiten Behl to talk about why Rivian keeps spinning out companies, what founders in the "physical world" need that software founders don't, and why automation is becoming necessary if the US wants to compete without Chinese supply chains.