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Equity Monday: China boosts pressure on its tech sector as Duolingo's IPO looks to raise a few more bucks

Equity

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🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 6 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 is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here. Ever wake up to just a massive wall of news? That was us this morning, so we had to pick and choose. But since this show is about getting you caught up, we decided to focus on the largest, broadest new information that we could: Asian stocks were down, European shares are lower, and American equities are set to open underwater. Bitcoin had a great weekend, however. China's edtech crackdown continued over the weekend, with the country's ruling party setting new rules for online tutoring companies; they can no longer go public and will be forced to become non-profit entities. Chinese edtech stocks around the world fell. China's larger tech crackdown continued over the weekend and into the week, with new moves against the present-day business models of both food delivery companies, and Tencent Music. The former must ensure minimum incomes, while the latter must give up exclusive rights deals. Shares fell. The Jam City SPAC is kaput. It will not be the last similar deal to fall apart. And we chatted about this bit of Rivian news, as it stood out to us. All that and we had a good time. Hugs and love from the Equity crew, chat Wednesday! 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

Good morning and welcome to Equity Monday for July 26th. This is our kickoff to the week, a time

0:15.9

in which we catch up on the news, and of course explore the numbers behind the headlines.

0:21.1

Let's start with the lay of the land.

0:22.6

Asian stocks were generally down today, partially in light of the latest salvo in China's

0:27.1

crackdown on its technology sector.

0:29.3

More on that shortly.

0:30.8

And European stocks fell while American stocks are set to open a little bit lower today.

0:35.0

But it's not all bad news.

0:37.0

Bitcoin is up around 12.5% in the last 24 hours thanks to an Amazon job posting that indicates the company may intend to form

0:43.9

some sort of blockchain policy over time. Now it's not clear what this job

0:47.8

posting really means and how soon Amazon may roll out what Bitcoin fans want

0:51.7

which is the acceptance of Bitcoin as a payment method on

0:54.2

Amazon's e-commerce store, but that uncertainty didn't stop crypto investors from bumping the value of a number of coins north, including Ether. Shares of Coinbase are up just a hair over 6% in pre-market trading as I write to you

1:06.4

in kind of a related trade. Now let's talk about that weekend.

1:16.2

Turning to the weekend we have a lot to get through so let's start with changes in the Chinese market and then talk about why one mobile gaming

1:20.2

company just backed out of its plans to go public.

1:23.0

First, China put rumored plans to force online tutoring companies to go non-profit into effect

1:27.8

this weekend, and now those same companies are also not allowed to go public.

1:32.1

The move was a pretty big blow against an education technology market that was up until 2021,

1:37.0

the example for a great many Ed Tech startups around the world,

1:40.0

and Ed Tech investing. It's worth noting.

1:42.0

How bad has 2021 been for Chinese Ed Tech companies?

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