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Equity

Don’t use Sam Altman and AI hype in the same sentence

Equity

TechCrunch

Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Business, Technology

4.2372 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week, Alex and Natasha took the mic to talk about the slowest news cycle we've had since the beginning of the grocery delivery wars and WeWork. Just kidding.  Here's what we got into: The M&A spree that includes updates from Qualtrics, Cvent, and Mint Mobile. We're happy to see some M&A, even if we'd rather see more startup deals and IPOs. GPT-4. GPT-4. GPT-4. What's in a name and more from the world of AI, including where we're seeing companies race to build the new tech into their products. SVB collapse update, including what we are looking for next. And what Y Combinator's round of layoffs tells us about the accelerator scaling back from late stage. (More on the trend here.) Busy few weeks, yeah? Don't forget to follow us on Twitter @EquityPod for live updates, and Alex will be back bright and early Monday morning with the latest. 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 unpacked the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines.

0:17.5

My name is Alex Wilhelm. I'm part of the TC crew and I'm joined today as always by Natasha Moskarenis.

0:23.2

Natasha are you still alive?

0:26.0

I don't know what this podcast is going to be today.

0:28.4

Full disclosure, I slept last night, which is good,

0:31.0

but I'm, yeah, very stream of consciousness vibes for me today.

0:34.3

How are you?

0:35.3

I'm good.

0:36.3

I'm doing a number of podcasts today in and around the Yahoo family and outside, because everyone in the

0:41.0

non-financial world is now talking about

0:43.2

S. V. And so it's kind of off to do explainers. So you know I'm good, but if

0:48.1

anything else breaks in the banking world. Oh my God, it's actually hilarious to me. I haven't been able to listen to last week's episode yet, but if you

0:56.0

listen to it, listeners probably caught us talking about S.B in the beginning of it and we were kind of like,

1:00.3

all that aside, let's talk about the actual news this week.

1:03.0

Right.

1:04.0

And now it's like, well, let's not talk about anything this week, because maybe we're going to jinx it all over again.

1:09.0

I mean, for a while there, you and I were doing kind of daily Twitter spaces just to recap the day's news that's how crazy

1:16.2

it's been so anyways obviously we've been under less stress than people who were actually

1:19.6

impacted by the crisis yes but good disclosure you know know, it did disrupt our lives a little bit.

1:25.0

All right, before we get into what we're talking about this week and the show itself a small note

1:28.8

from the production team, which is that we would love it if you drop us a review on Apple Podcasts.

1:34.4

If producers can find the right names and stuff, we're going to shout people out.

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