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Don’t ever leak data, but especially if you’re building this type of startup

Equity

TechCrunch

Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Business, Technology

4.2372 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This was Y Combinator week in a sense, with the well-known accelerator showing off hundreds of startups over a two-day period. We had some thoughts about that. But! There was a lot more for Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex to dig into, so we have a little something for everyone today. Here's the show notes, enjoy: First, support our sibling podcasts Found and Chain Reaction in the Webbys! They deserve it, and we're voting for them too. For our Deals of the Week, we had: Monument and Tempest shared patients’ private data with advertisers, Acorns buys GoHenry, and Alex has notes on how the Q1 venture capital market is shaping up. Looking for all the Y Combinator notes your heart could desire? You can find our favorites from days one and two at those links, and read this Natasha piece on why the Bay is Back. We also took the time to discuss the term 'demo day' for an event where there are no, you know, demos. Latin America was back on the show thanks to Mary Ann, giving us a good reminder that we have not spent enough time lately looking at the region. We closed with Frank, a frank chat that frankly had us shaking our heads. Fraud is bad, and nearly doubly so when it comes to startups, where trust plays such a critical role. Equity will return to your ears Monday morning, cheers until then! For episode transcripts and more, head to Equity’s Simplecast website.  Equity drops at 7:00 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 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, a podcast all about the business of startups where we

0:14.7

unpack the numbers and the new ones behind the headlines.

0:17.6

My name is Alex and I'm joined today by, well, two of my best friends, Marianne Essevetto.

0:21.6

Marianne, how are you?

0:22.6

How is life?

0:23.6

I'm doing great, even though it's pouring down rain here in Austin.

0:27.2

I'm doing well.

0:28.2

How are you?

0:29.4

I mean, the weather here is also crap, which is also pretty appropriate,

0:31.9

given that we have some news today on the pod that is not

0:34.1

exactly full of rays of sunshine. But let's turn to our happy member. We have Natasha

0:38.5

Moscow with us. Natasha, please tell me at least you are having a good day.

0:42.0

I am and maybe you can tell by the glow on my face,

0:44.4

but San Francisco is like finally breaking through its once in a lifetime,

0:48.3

rain parade, and everyone's outside,

0:51.8

everyone's like just hanging out.

0:53.4

I'm happy I would out a little bit, but I'm really happy to like be around people.

0:58.2

My extroverted heart is feeling very fulfilled these days.

1:01.7

All right, will you please go to Tartine for me?

1:03.9

Ah, I will.

1:04.8

I just had their lemon tart, and I'm so sad,

1:08.4

it took me four years of living in SF to try it.

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