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Equity

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🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the week’s biggest tech happenings. It was yet another busy week, but that just means we had a great time putting the show together and recording it. Honestly we have a lot of fun this week, and we hope that you crack a smile while we dig through the latest as a team. Ready? Here's the rundown: The Coinbase direct listing! Here's our notes on its S-1, its direct listing reference price, and its results. And we even wrote about the impact that it might have on other startup verticals! Grab's impending SPAC! As it turns out Natasha loves SPACs now, and even Danny and Alex had very little to say that was rude about this one. Degreed became a unicorn, proving yet again that education for the enterprise is a booming sub-sector. Outschool also became an edtech unicorn, thanks to a new round led by Coatue and everyone's rich cousin, Tiger Global. The conversation soon devolved into how Tiger Global is impacting the broader VC ecosystem, thanks to a fantastic analysis piece that you have to read here. Papa raised $60 million, also from Tiger Global. What do you call tech aimed at old folks? Don't call it elder tech, we have a brand new phrase in store. Let's see if it catches on. AI chips! Danny talks the team through grokking Groq, so that we can talk about TPUs without losing our minds. He's a good egg. And, finally, Slice raised more money. Not from Tiger Global. We have good things to say about it. And that is our show! We are back on Monday morning! 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	Equity is brought to you by Extra Crunch, that Prodigious Tech Ranch Paywell you keep running into.
0:05.0	You can break through that Paywell at a steep discount if you use the promo code Equity.
0:09.0	If you do, you'll get access to our best stuff and you'll make Equity look really good internally at the same time.
0:13.4	Enough of that, let's start the show. Hello and welcome back to Equity Tech Runches Venture Capital
0:29.5	Focus Podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
0:32.8	My name is Alex Wilhelm and I am joined today by my absolute two favorites.
0:35.8	The whole gang is here today.
0:37.2	We have Natasha Moskarenis from Jersey.
0:39.6	Natasha, how is life?
0:41.2	Life is good.
0:42.2	I finally have my podcast set up back so I don't have to pretend like I'm the broadcaster every time we record. So I feel loose, I feel ready to dance while I talk and I'm really glad to have all of us back on the show together.
0:53.7	The problem for Natasha now, for everyone out there who doesn't podcast is now she has no excuse for poor mic
0:58.0	control. So now she has to keep the mic where it's supposed to be.
1:00.8	She's not... Posture. Yeah, it's rough.
1:03.0	Speaking of bad posture, we have Danny Crichton here as well.
1:06.0	Danny, hi.
1:07.0	First of all, I have good posture.
1:08.0	Second of all, I have a new mic coming.
1:10.1	So this mic, which is a totally acceptable mic, but apparently is not acceptable to some people in this room, is getting replaced thanks to a budget surplus at Tech Ranch.
1:20.0	Is that budget surplus entitled your last year's bonus?
1:23.3	Okay.
1:24.3	Exactly.
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