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Equity

TechCrunch

Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Business, Technology

4.2 • 372 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week, Natasha interviewed Lizzie Matusov, the co-founder and CEO of Quotient, which wants to fix the "leaky pipeline problem" in tech onboarding that doesn't set up engineers for success. Yes, that's right, this week we're talking about the work needs, habits and aspirations of developers. Here's a few topics we get into: The stereotype of a coder, and where collectivism contrasts with those characteristics. How Quotient is using research, not just aspiration, to fuel its onboarding process The status quo of tech jobs and if we're seeing employers question some of their pre-conceived notions Developer resistance to change and if engineers really do want to work together more For episode transcripts and more, head to Equity’s Simplecast website.  As always, the full Equity crew will be back on Friday, but you can keep up with us in the meantime on Twitter @EquityPod. Equity drops every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7:00 a.m. PT, 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 of Podcast about the Business of Startups

0:15.4

where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.

0:18.6

I'm Natasha Masquerainis and I am back after one week away from the mic

0:22.0

I missed you all so much and

0:23.6

apologies in advance for the extra energy I'm here because it's our Wednesday

0:27.8

show where we niche down to a single person think about their work and

0:31.4

unpack the rest.

0:33.0

Today we're talking to Lizzie Matusov,

0:35.0

the co-founder and CEO of the developer on boarding startup

0:38.0

quotient previously called Pathlight.

0:41.0

Lizzie, welcome to Equity Pod.

0:43.2

Thank you so much for having me.

0:45.2

I love that we could do this in person, but we're choosing not to because we're two of the

0:48.6

SF-based techies here these days, but it's still fun to be in your living room office

0:54.4

office flex second bedroom flex workout room sounds like SF yeah

1:00.0

tell me about the art on your wall, because I am so interested in it.

1:03.6

I love the one all the way to the right.

1:05.0

And I'm, yes, I know it's a podcast

1:06.5

and no one can see it other than us.

1:08.3

This is fantastic because I love this artist so much.

1:11.0

Her name is Laura Berger.

1:12.4

And she, there is a little

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