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Equity

A knock against bootstrapping

Equity

TechCrunch

Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Business, Technology

4.2372 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Natasha and Mary Ann and Alex were all aboard this week under the guidance of Chris and Grace, which meant we had the full team. And speaking of teams, Mary Ann is joining the Friday show on a weekly basis now. She's been a friend for years, and a colleague now twice-over for Natasha and Alex and we could not be more excited. That personal news aside, here's the rundown for today's show! Funding rounds in the logistics and infra markets: We went physical-world with our funding round roundup this week. BridgeLinx put together the largest Seed round in Pakistan's history, Releaf is doing incredibly interesting agtech work in Nigeria, and Stord's huge round from earlier in the week brought us to Atlanta. And oh boy has Atlanta had a week. TechCrunch did a deep dive into the city's superlative startup fundraising in recent quarters, and, of course, one of its home-grown startups sold to Intuit for $12 billion just a few days ago. We had a few thoughts on the Intuit-Mailchimp transaction, even if we tried to steer clear of territory that we've already tread. For more about the controversy, Business Insider wrote about how some Mailchimp employees are reacting to the deal. From there we turned to a layoff story. Casper, the DTC mattress company that is now public, had another round of layoffs that cut three C-suite executives. It brought us into a conversation about how Apple's tracking updates are impacting startups in this category more broadly, and if more layoffs are on the horizon.  And then there were IPOs to discuss. Natasha talked us through the news that Quizlet may go public soon, which meant we had to chat edtech for a minute. Rounding out the Going Public conversation was notes on both Toast and Freshworks. Alex does not apologize for his lame joke, we hasten to add. Disrupt is next week, so expect some possible changes to the regular Equity show lineup if the news cycle gets dicey. Hugs! 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, Tech Runches, Winter Capital, focused

0:17.4

podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

0:20.1

We have a hell of a crew today and we have a hell of a show, but before we

0:22.4

dive into that Natasha

0:23.4

Hello, how are you I'm so excited disrupt is next week and I actually feel feel it

0:28.6

Even though we're remote. I don't know what's happening. Well, it's three days.

0:33.2

I hadn't realized that until I was doing some prep work.

0:35.4

And I was like, oh my gosh, there's like 68,000 things going on.

0:38.1

It's going to be crazy.

0:38.9

But that's next week.

0:39.7

But this week we're talking about is the fact that Mary Ann is joining the show as one of our regular

0:43.6

co-hosts you will hear her on the Friday show Mary Ann please say hello and tell the people why you're

0:47.9

stoked to be on equity.

0:50.3

Hi everyone I'm super pumped to be on this podcast on a weekly basis I get to riff with my friends and former colleagues Natasha and Alex and it's just a great opportunity to like unpack all the awesome news that we published this past week.

1:04.2

I think like the RIF with Friends actually could be our new tagline.

1:07.8

That's exactly what it feels like with you joining the show.

1:10.6

Like it's such a natural new edition so so happy your

1:14.2

her Marian. Today we got a packed show we're going to talk about funding rounds from

1:17.6

bridge links relief and stored we are going to talk about Atlanta which was in

1:22.0

the news several times this week I think we're going to talk about Atlanta, which was in the news several times this week, I think.

1:24.0

We're going to talk about some layoff trends, including a scoop from our own Natasha,

1:28.0

and then we're going to riff a little bit about the public markets and why Ed Tech is cool,

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