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Equity

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🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week, Natasha was joined by Mary Ann Azevedo and Rebecca Szkutak to talk about the latest and greatest in tech: Deals of the week include Inflow, which has developed a self-help app designed to help people manage their ADHD, Cartograph Ventures, a new venture fund run by an ex-Juul operator, and the latest lawsuit and layoffs happening over at Carta The plethora of fintech M&A that took place this week, including Fidelity's acquisition of a startup called Shoobx (we couldn't pronounce its name either) and Deel's buyout of Capbase. Microsoft's deal with ChatGPT OpenAI which, we'll admit, has a structure that stumps even us. Plus, we talk about how Pittsburgh's expertise in AI may help give its startup scene a boost. There's Sam Altman, and then there's Sam Bankman-Fried, which brings us to our last theme. We talk about SBF's new Substack, the Kardashian method of distraction and why the legal world isn't a fan of levity. As Becca said so aptly, maybe billionaires (or former billionaires) should stop trying to be cute. We'll end with a reminder that the TechCrunch podcast network is now a machine that produces content, daily, from the most diverse slate of hosts in the tech pod world. Proud of our fellow co-hosts, and for those of you who may be starting a resolution or habit-stacking to start 2023, consider giving our other shows a try. Equity drops at 10:00 a.m. PT every Monday and at 7:00 a.m. PT on Wednesdays and Fridays, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotifyand 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 about the business of startups where we
0:14.6	unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. I'm Natasha Masquerainis and
0:18.3	you know exactly who is joining me. Marianne Azavito, how are you Marian, how's your 2023 so far? You know it's going pretty good. I still maintain that I'm going to be more optimistic about this year and trying to keep that upbeat attitude so going well. I'm glad I'm glad I'm going to check in with you on a
0:33.8	monthly basis on the optimism meter because I know people are interested. We also
0:38.4	have Becca Scutak, Becca how are you? Good, how are you?
0:43.0	I'm tired.
0:44.0	You know, it's been a weird week,
0:45.0	but I feel like as our script shows
0:48.0	there's been so much that we've all been writing about,
0:50.0	gossiping about,
0:51.0	so honestly looking forward to walking it through with you and Mary Ann.
0:55.1	No definitely everyone I don't know gearing up for the long weekend here in the US
0:59.1	they'll have one less news day next week I guess that actually might be it so I'll give you guys a high level what we're going to get to and then we'll jump into our deals of the week so we're starting with looking at
1:08.6	cardograph ventures in flow as well as layoffs in a lawsuit at a cap table management tool that a
1:14.3	startup you know definitely leans on. Then we're going to get into our first theme
1:18.1	which is all about FinTech M&A which is the good and the bad this week.
1:21.4	Theme two is chat gp T and the Generative AI Boom,
1:24.8	and we're gonna end with a sub-stack
1:26.7	that has gotten our attention,
1:27.8	but not for necessarily exciting journalistic reasons.
1:31.6	But let's start with Cardograph Ventures, Becca, a VC firm caught your eyes and they're
1:36.7	raising a debut fund. Tell us all about it. Yeah, Cardograph Ventures is going to be an Austin-based
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