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Equity

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4.2 • 372 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week, Natasha and Alex and Mary Ann got together with Chris and Grace to rock our regular Friday news roundup. This time, however, with extra zip as we're staring down a long weekend that, let's be clear, everyone needs. Regardless, here's the show rundown: Don't call us your metamate, friend. Startups news of the week: Ro raises even more, Airbase partners with Amex, and Deel wants to give employers a way to fund their payroll in crypto, no matter where their employees are based. The crypto regulatory world is heating up, with news from both India and the United States to chew on. Our read is that some regulation is good, but not every loss can be spun as a win. We also took a look at the mental health market for people of color through the lens of MindFi in the APAC region, and She Matters here in the United States. We had some startup-style questions, but are generally bullish about the companies. And we closed with the cannabis market of both Germany, and the United States. Alex and Natasha are bullish on, well, all of it while Mary Ann nurses a hemp allergy. Woot! We're off Monday, but back Tuesday. Hugs! 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, a podcast all about the business of startups where we
0:14.4	unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. My name is Alex, this is our Friday show.
0:19.1	We are talking about the news of the week, the biggest, the best, the boldest, and and of course the worst and I have with me the team the dream team really
0:26.1	Natasha hello hello hello how are you doing Alex death Corps is good will home that don't make fun of my slack name it It's an inside joke with myself. I'm doing good because I bought
0:35.6	extra Americanos and extra donuts to power myself through this episode because I knew that
0:39.8	Marianne Azaveto in Texas was going to bring the heat.
0:43.0	Yeah, yeah, thanks for reminding me.
0:44.6	I'm about to go have some more espresso myself.
0:46.7	Is your machine?
0:47.7	Critically, did your espresso machine get fixed?
0:48.8	Yeah.
0:49.8	It did not, but I was desperate and got a new one
0:52.1	because how could I go in and tell your week without
0:54.3	espresso? Oh my god I love you for that.
0:56.7	Ladies and gentlemen there has been an espresso shortage at the Marianne residence and has been
1:00.5	solved with money as many things are which is actually kind of the theme of the show but to give everyone a quick look at where we're going
1:06.7	We're gonna start with meta mates because we can't avoid not making fun of that if you well
1:10.9	Deals of the week include row air, and then what's going on with
1:14.2	Deal. Regulatory challenges for crypto is our first theme. Second is personalized mental health
1:18.5	care for women of color. And then we're going to wrap up by talking about cannabis. and I'm just going to go ahead and say this,
1:23.6	cannabis soda.
1:24.6	Where was this when I was in high school?
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