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

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

My name is Alex and I'm joined today on this lovely Friday episode by my friend it's Marianne

Hi hello and how goes your week? It's going good Alex it's actually raining here in

Austin which is a good thing because we've had like no rain for months and months so I'm happy.

Well for once my part of the world has better weather than you.

We're having an odd June here in almost November but it's been tank top season on the East Coast and I'm loving it.

Thankfully though we do have even more geographic diversity on the show than just Texas and Rhode Island.

We also have our dear friend from the Southwest, it's Kirstenkorsec, hey, how are you?

I am excellent, loving the desert weather right now and actually just got out of the dunes out in Southern California for a all-women's off-roading map and compass navigation competition.

Wow.

What were you driving?

So I was just there for media because I could do fun things like that.

But it's actually a 21, it's called the rebel rally. It's 2,100 kilometers. It goes from

Mammoth down into through the Mojave and I was there at the end. But the cool thing about it, which is relevant to Tech Crunch audience, is that this was

the Rivian. Yeah, but the cool thing about it, which is relevant to Tech Crunch audience, is that this year's winner in the 4 by 4 category was Rivian.

Yeah.

Oh, really? The EV maker that's building trucks that people can now kind of see out in the wild, I think. I've seen a few.

Yeah, and the team was two women who are actually engineers at Ribbean, but the R1T one, which is a first for an electric, it's a first time an electric vehicle is one.

So pretty cool.

Very cool.

Wow.

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