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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Netflix growing up, data center jet engines, an...
Today on TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec and Anthony Ha discuss what happens when the startup that used to mail you DVDs grows up and tries to buy a legacy entertainment empire as well as the other headlines that caught their eye. 
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ElevenLabs just hit $6.6B, but its CEO says the...
Today on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, we’re bringing you ⁠a conversation with CEO Mati Staniszewski⁠ from this year's Disrupt, where he made a surprising admission: he thinks voice models will be commoditized in just a couple of years. So what's ElevenLabs' plan when everyone else catches up? 
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Nothing wants your money, AWS wants your trust,...
This week on ⁠Equity⁠, the crew dug into the ROI on AI agents, plus the collision course between Hollywood and generative AI, and why everyone wants their own version of Spotify Wrapped. 
28 min
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This VC charges $0 for PR, and has 12 unicorns ...
Today on TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Rebecca Bellan sat down with Day One's Masha Bucher to talk about why traditional PR is broken, how she picks founders, and why every startup founder now needs to be chronically online. 
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Supabase CEO on the "painful" decisions that bu...
Supabase, the open-source database platform that's become the backend of choice for the vibe-coding world, ⁠raised $100 million at a $5 billion valuation⁠ just months after closing $200 million at $2 billion. But co-founder and CEO Paul Copplestone has a surprising strategy: he keeps turning down million-dollar enterprise contracts, betting instead that vibe coding will birth the next generation of companies.  Today on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Julie Bort sat down with Copplestone to explore Supabase's rise and what it means for the database race. 
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The Nordic startup scene has quietly become one...
Dominic-Madori Davis caught up with Propane co-founder Dennis Green-Lieber to talk about the Nordic startup ecosystem, from its collaborative culture to its deep tech future. 
26 min
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AI mania is making Nvidia a lot of money
This week on Equity, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O'Kane dig into Nvidia's massive earnings beat, the circular economy of AI infrastructure spending, and whether Jensen Huang's optimistic vision of AI agents handling everything in our daily lives can justify the investment. 
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January Ventures bets AI's biggest winners won'...
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Introducing TechCrunch's new podcast: Build Mode
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Are data centers the new oil fields?
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What startups are building next, according to O...
Today on TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Russell Brandom sat down with Manara at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to explore how OpenAI is serving the startups building on its platform. 
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SoftBank is back, and the AI hype cycle is eati...
Equity⁠ takes a closer look at why the SoftBank-OpenAI deal has people skeptical, what it signals about the sustainability of AI's current investment model, going public, and more. 
25 min
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From Air Force officer to space defense CEO: Wh...
Today on TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Rebecca Bellan sat down with Rogers to explore the emerging business of space defense and why the U.S. is playing catch-up. 
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Equity Live: From $300M seed rounds to data cen...
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Startups should rethink how they pursue sales a...
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OpenAI wants to power your browser, and that co...
On TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Max Zeff, Anthony Ha and Sean O’Kane break down Atlas’s debut, the broader wave of new, alternative browsers, the AWS crash that broke much of the internet, and more of the week’s startup and tech news. 
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Sam Altman’s eye-scanning startup wants to prov...
Today on TechCrunch's ⁠Equity⁠ podcast, Rebecca Bellan spoke with Adrian Ludwig, Chief Security Officer and Chief Architect at ⁠Tools for Humanity⁠, the company behind World’s eye-scanning Orbs appearing around the globe. Bellan and Ludwig discuss building privacy-first identity verification, the open-source approach to biometric tech, and why proving humanity matters now more than ever. 
25 min
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From SB 243 to ChatGPT: Why it's ‘not cool' to ...
On this episode of ⁠Equity⁠, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Max Zeff discuss how the line between innovation and responsibility ⁠is getting blurrier⁠, plus what happens when pranks go from digital to physical. 
28 min
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Disruption via doping: Enhanced Games founder o...
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AI goes enterprise, AltStore raises $6M, and Te...
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Why the new H-1B policy helps outsourcers, not ...
25 min
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AI slop, government stops, and startup uncertainty
Equity unpacks the week’s headlines, from how the government shutdown is impacting startups to the messy reality of AI monetization experiments.
30 min
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California just drew the blueprint for AI safet...
28 min
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From $100B OpenAI deals to $100K visa fees
From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI infrastructure gold rush and tech's talent shuffle.
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How Chipiron's rethinking the future of MRI
Chipiron CEO joins Equity to discuss how his startup is tackling one of the most expensive hospital-bound technologies, MRI machines, and aims to make them available anywhere.
28 min