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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Well, do you trust Sam Altman?
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Amazon's Steve Schmidt on why your AI agents ar...
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The 'people’s airline,' SpaceXAI, and the Enter...
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Aurora's Chris Urmson on why self-driving truck...
We're bringing you a conversation Rebecca Bellan had with Aurora co-founder and CEO Chris Urmson at the HumanX conference in San Francisco. The pair dug into the long road from lab to highway and how physical AI differs from the LLM boom everyone else is chasing.
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Did you know you can't steal a charity? Don't w...
Today on Equity, Kirsten and Sean break down what's actually at stake in the Musk v Altman case, plus deals, defense tech, and what Big Tech's earnings week revealed about the limits of the AI spending era.
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Is AI video just a prequel? Runway's CEO thinks...
On this episode of Equity, Runway co-founder and CEO Cristobal Valenzuela to talk about where video generation goes from here, and why Runway's ambitions now reach well beyond Hollywood.
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Apple's new CEO, and why Elon Musk wants to buy...
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Fusion doesn't have a normal startup timeline, ...
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Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI's shopping spree, and the ...
Today on Equity, we dig into Allbird's AI pivot, what's actually being built in AI infrastructure, who's winning the enterprise battle between OpenAI and Anthropic, and more of the week's headlines.
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The musician-turned-biotech-founder waiting to ...
Aloe Blacc sits down with TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast to talk about his transition from music to biotech, why he’s building a cancer drug company, and why he’s choosing not to fundraise yet.
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Luma AI's Amit Jain on why most world model com...
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Snowflake’s transition from storing data to shi...
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Space: the final frontier of AI infrastructure
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Why private wealth is cutting out the VC middleman
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VCs are betting billions on AI's next wave, so ...
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ReelShort made $1.2 billion on werewolf romance...
On this episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan and TechCrunch senior reporter Amanda Silberling sit down with Henry Soong, founder of Watch Club, who thinks the micro drama industry is still "in its MySpace era." He has a vision for what the Facebook moment could look like.
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Nvidia has an OpenClaw strategy. Do you?
Equity breaks down Nvidia's GTC keynote from $1 trillion in AI chip sales to an OpenClaw strategy for enterprises, and a rambling Olaf robot that had to get its mic cut. Plus Travis Kalanick's complicated comeback and Uber's $1.25B bet on Rivian.
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The PhD students who became the judges of the A...
On this episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan catches up with Arena co-founders Anastasios Angelopoulos and Wei-Lin Chiang to determine how a team like theirs can build a neutral benchmark when the companies they’re ranking are also their backers.
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Wiz's first investor breaks down Google's $32B ...
Today on Equity, Index Ventures' Shardul Shah joins to break down the largest venture-backed acquisition in history. The crew also looks into a DOGE data breach, the growing battle between Anthropic and the Trump administration, and more deals of the week.
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How Poppi went from a Shark Tank pitch to a $1....
Allison Ellsworth joins Equity to talk about her journey from creating Poppi in her kitchen to selling it to PepsiCo for nearly $2 billion. She discusses the importance of authenticity, digital-first marketing, strategic exits, and navigating the competitive beverage industry.
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Anthropic vs. the Pentagon, the SaaSpocalypse, ...
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How PopSockets broke the VC-backed consumer har...
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.
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Who's really running AI? Inside the billion-dol...
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.
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Is crypto growing up? Tether risk, Stripe’s sta...
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.
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Build Mode: Compensation, culture, and cap tabl...
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