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.

This is Friday, November 3rd, and my name is Alex and I'm joined today as I am each and every Friday by my dear friend

Marianne.

Marianne I won't ask how you're doing instead I'll ask what's on your mind.

Oh gosh that's that's there's so much so we don't have enough time for that, but I can say I'm excited about this episode.

Yeah, this is going to be an absolute banger and one of the reasons why it's going to be so

crushingly excellent. No pressure at all is that we have our friend Becca scutac here.

Becca, hey, how are you?

Hey, well I was doing well until you gave that intro.

Now I'm nervous.

Well, you gotta you gotta perform.

This is a high pressure environment where we know it's not. We just have a lot of fun.

But we do have a whip-ass show for everyone this week. We're going to talk a little bit about

W. Work and the latest there. Then in Deals of the the week we have Charlie, the Navigation Fund, and

Al Manir. Finally, we're going to talk about big FinTech rounds from around the world and then

founders and their perspective on breakups and how they should prepare for them early.

But to start, We Work is back on the show and I'm proud to announce Mary Ann that

we work is financially healthy, it's going to make it and everything's looking hunky-dory.

Oh, well, yeah, couldn't be further from the truth.

We reported this week that we work is reportedly on the

for bankruptcy. Not a surprise. It's not been doing well for a while now. Been

struggling to recover from having Adam Newman as a CEO

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