Equity Live: This is what leadership smells like

Equity

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🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 35 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. This week we did something fun and different and good: a live show! A good number of people came, and asked questions, and altogether, it was a blast. Danny, Natasha, and Alex had a lovely time with the regular work, while Grace and Chris and Kevin made the whole operation function. We'll likely post a bonus episode of the Q&A on Saturday if people are interested in Equity After Hours. That aside, what did we talk about in a longer-than-usual episode? Here's the rundown: Buzzfeed is going public! Alex wrote about the news here, but the gist is that the media company is merging with a SPAC, buying Complex, and raising some capital at the same time. We have thoughts about it. Maybe neobanks will break even? We dug into some fintech news through the perspective of some recent news from the neobank market. MAJORITY raised MONEY for migrants to the United States, while MFast, a Vietnamese financial services app, got some funding of its own amid the neobank boom. Alex interviewed a leading venture capitalist. So, we talked about that. What's going on with the early-stage venture capital market? That's something we tried to parse. The gist is that the rapidly-evolving world of investing in startups is in the midst of a few trends that are worth understanding. Even if they are slightly contradictory. A16z tripled down on crypto with a new $2.2 billion fund, giving it a total of $18.8 billion in assets under management. Edtech leaders rallied around a memo of their own this past week. And then to close, we raced through some of our recent reporting on a new fund that will invest in American military institute graduates, Figma's huge new round of capital, and WaitWhat? It's always fun to play around with our show, and thank you to everyone who came out and supported us in our first-ever, but probably not last-ever, virtual live show. We are back to regular, however, starting Monday. 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.
0:14.0	Enough of that, let's start the show. Hello and welcome back to Equity Decorances
0:29.5	Metro Capital focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
0:33.3	My name is Alex Wilhelm and I am joined today by Danny Crichton, one of T.C.
0:36.4	managing editors.
0:37.4	Danny, hello?
0:38.4	Hi Alex, how are you doing today?
0:39.9	I'm doing good.
0:40.9	I'll explain why this is a weird episode in just a second but we also had
0:42.9	Natasha Moscowans here Natasha who just kicked your parents off the internet how are you
0:46.2	this is the reality of living with them for a year plus it's like one of us gets to use the
0:50.3	internet at one time we can make fun of ISPs now, right?
0:53.3	I'm just going to blame Verizon for Natasha's internet woes.
0:55.7	You should.
0:56.2	The reason we're talking about that is because we are recording
0:58.4	this particular episode of Equity
0:59.9	live in front of a Hoppin audience.
1:02.1	So shout out to everyone in Hopin who joined up.
1:04.8	We missed doing live shows,
1:06.2	and so we decided to just do one for fun.
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