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Five VCs discuss what surprised them the most in 2020

Equity

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Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Business, Technology

4.2372 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today is our holiday look-back at the year, bringing not only our own Danny and Natasha and Chris and Alex into the mix, but also five venture capitalists who we got to leave us their notes as well. The goal for this episode was to reflect on a year that no one could have ever predicted, but with a specific angle, as always, on venture capital and startups.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. This is Alex. Hey, it's Natasha. And we are here to talk just for a second about

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Extra Crunch, Tech Crunchy subscription product. Extra Crunch is where a lot of our best analysis and follow-up

0:12.2

stories lives. We focus a lot on startups, building, and even

0:16.5

poke fun here and there.

0:18.5

It's true. I also write a daily column called The Exchange that's over on Extra Crunch

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and the good news is if you don't have

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EC access yet we have a deal for you. Yes you can use I think the best code

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there is so don't tell anyone who doesn't listen to equity because they're not invited the code is equity all caps for 50% off your extra crunch subscription

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So head over to techwrench.com slash subscribe use that code make us look good internally we say

0:44.4

thanks across the internet and now let's do a show. Hello and welcome back to Equity Tech Runches Inter Capital Focus Podcast, where we unpack the numbers

1:05.2

behind the headlines. My name is Alex and I am joined by the entire crew. We are back. We are back together

1:10.2

as a unit and we have Danny Croydon fresh from his vacations.

1:13.5

Danny how are you? You know it's Christmas Eve I'm looking forward to the

1:16.8

ghosts of Christmas past and the ghosts of Christmas presents.

1:20.1

I thought you were more the ghosts of Christmas future, but that's fine.

1:23.3

We also had Natasha here, how are you doing?

1:25.7

I drank coffee on an empty stomach today to celebrate our last time recording for the year,

1:30.8

which is crazy.

1:32.0

What a crazy year. this year started off with me

1:34.1

thinking the biggest changes in my life were Kate Clark leaving the show and

1:37.0

launching equity Monday and then we got side-sweep by global pandemic

1:40.3

everything changed about six or seven times the soccer soccer market went up crazily, then all the

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