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2022: The good, the bad, and the wake-up calls

Equity

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🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We are nearly at the end of the year, so your friendly, local podcast crew is trying to make sense of just what happened in 2022. We started the year on a venture capital high which quickly turned into a downturn. Startups kicked off the year hiring and wrapped the year shedding staff. The stock market kept going down. A crypto winter kicked off. We saw some PE deals but very few IPOs. And the world saw a bit more geopolitical upheaval than we might have anticipated. There were elections and shutdowns and frauds and mistakes and big wins. It was, well, a lot. Thankfully Mary Ann, Natasha, and Alex were able to collate the news into a few distinct categories, so that we can all look back at 2022 with a bit more clarity. And we even got to hear from a bunch of you, thanks to your dozens and dozens of great taglines you sent in concerning the year and how it felt from your chair. We have even more good stuff coming, including our yearly predictions episode. Get hype, and we'll talk to you soon! Equity drops at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews founders, one that details how our stories come together, and more! Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast all about the business of

0:14.7

startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. My

0:18.4

name is Alex and I am joined by our excellent Friday crew up in one corner

0:22.1

we have Natasha Moskarenis

0:23.9

Natasha somehow another year has gone by us how are you feeling you know what I don't

0:27.4

want to talk about resolutions I don't want to talk about what happened this

0:30.1

year but that is exactly I guess what we're going to be doing today.

0:33.2

So that's my energy.

0:35.2

Well, speaking of resolutions, I know Mary Ann has volunteered to take the Equity

0:38.9

brand and do a tough mutter next year, which is a combination distance race and obstacle course.

0:44.0

So Mary Ann thank you so much for being our avatar there.

0:46.0

Of course, of course, yes.

0:48.0

Can't wait.

0:49.0

As she does. Marianne is famously a hardcore distance athlete.

0:52.0

Actually, I have no idea.

0:53.2

I'm just giving her a hard time.

0:55.2

Listen though, y'all, we have a lot to get through it,

0:56.5

and this is not a regular show.

0:57.7

We are not doing our usual Friday news dump

1:00.4

because in theory, news is slowing down.

1:02.4

We'll see if that actually pans out but we're

1:04.0

going to be taking a look back at 2022 we have a ton of fun stuff including your

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