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🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We're getting back up to full speed this week, so Mary Ann and Alex along with Grace behind the scenes took on our Friday show. Next week Natasha and Chris are back, and we'll do our regular three-show lineup. Today, however, despite a smaller team we had just as much as always go chew through: OpenSea's epic new fundraise: Alex did a little Fun Math on the company's trading volume and possible revenue totals. The gist is that OpenSea is a big business. But with NFTs as volatile as they are, charting regular growth will prove difficult. During our crypto chat, we also dug into the Web 2.0 vs. web3 debate that has been raging. From there we pivoted to fintech, with notes on Petal's funding round, Ribbit's new fund, and how Mexican fintech Bankaya is going after its target customers via offline methods. Then it was notes on the private and public markets' dissonance, and a few moments to complain about COVID. We are back Monday morning! Chat you then! 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, Techra Interest of Inter Capital of Focused Podcast,
0:13.4	where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines.
0:16.4	My name is Alex and I'm joined this week by my dear friend, my old time colleague and
0:20.4	a general, just good person. Marianne, hi.
0:23.0	Hi, Alex, how are you?
0:25.0	I'm good. We are not joined by Natasha today because Natasha is off, but I will say for everyone out
0:30.0	there who listens to the show, we are back to full strength next week. Our whole team is
0:33.3	back. Three episodes coming. We're just taking a slightly slower gear up to the year because
0:37.4	last year was a lot and we're all hanging in there, Mary Ann. It's been tough, I think we could say.
0:42.1	Just a little bit, Alex, just a little bit. It's been tough, I think we could say.
0:42.6	Just a little bit, Alex, just a little bit.
0:45.0	But that's not going to slow us down.
0:46.2	We have much to get through.
0:47.4	Today we have probably one of the best shows
0:49.6	we've had in some time,
0:50.3	just given how much I love these topics.
0:51.7	We have OpenC's epic rays. We have Web 2.0 versus Web 3 through the
0:56.9	context of control and what decentralization really is. Then we have FinTech with
1:01.4	rounds from Petal and Van Kaya, notes about Ribet Capital's excellent new fund, and then at the end a question about public markets, private markets, and who is bullish enough? Who is correct about what's going on? It's going to be an action-packed show, but first,
1:13.8	we have OpenC.
1:14.7	Mary Ann, when this funding round touchdown,
1:16.4	given your rampant enthusiasm for all things in FT,
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