Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. I'm Natasha Masqueriness and

joining me is Senior Tech Crunch reporter and FinTech Extraordinare,

Marianne Asavito. Marianne, how are you?

Tell me something about your day or week.

Yeah, you know what?

I feel good.

I've had more energy this week than I've had in a long time

and it's a really good feeling. I hope I can keep it up heck yes we are also joined by

Becca scutak I'm gonna put you on the spot and ask you who do you like more equity or found oh my god

now that you're on both paws. Pick your face. I am not answering that.

Who would you bring with you to an island? Like the host? Like do I go to an island with

Darryl or do I go on island with you guys? I don't know. I would pick the people there's more of, but also I feel like Canadians have secrets up their sleeves,

so I wouldn't blame you if you pick.

So yeah, Darryl is a mysterious character, that's for sure.

He really is.

Well, thank you both for joining me this week. There's so much to get to this show.

We're going to start with three deals of the week as always looking at trust, fund, welcome homes, and carry first.

Then we're going to go into Data, Theme 1, looking at 22 funding data, specifically in the FinTech world and looking globally.

We'll get into Twitter rivals and some new social media startups, including one that got acquired by discord,

and we'll end, end unfortunately with layoffs coming from

Microsoft that I think even after a year of constant layoff news surprised all of us.

But I will throw it to myself for the first section because we're going to talk about Trust Fund.

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