Gearing up for demo day

Equity

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🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Every Monday, Grace and Alex and Kell scour the news and record notes on what’s going on to kick off the week. This week had a theme. Which was startups. Lots and lots of startups. Here’s the rundown: Markets are mixed this morning, with strong crypto trading results and big news from Tesla. The weekend’s leading conversation in the tech and startup world was about this analysis regarding crypto upstarts not giving out board seats to investors. Call it peak founder-friendliness? It’s also a huge risk, as investors have taken board seats for a reason, historically. All the same, you gotta win those deals. Y Combinator Demo Day is this week: We are going to see hundreds of startups make their pitch in rapid-fire fashion. Sure, many will have already raised capital, but the capitalist confab is still worth watching. I am looking for API-led startups and any hints about where DAOs are heading, personally. Zepto raised, which TechCrunch covered here, and I had a few thoughts about. The big tech landscape is quiet this week thus far, which means we can focus in on startups. See you at demo day tomorrow! 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 the Tech Runch
0:15.6	podcast where we unpacked the numbers and the nuance behind the
0:18.7	headlines. This is our Monday show where we take a look at the week that is
0:22.2	ahead of us and this week is
0:23.6	startup heavy. We're gonna talk about startups pretty much the entire show today
0:26.7	after we go through the market so let's get right into that. Don't forget it is
0:29.8	March the 28th. This is Alex and this is Equity, and let's go.
0:33.4	All right, kicking off with markets this morning.
0:38.9	Over in Asia, stocks are mixed in Europe, stocks are higher and taking a look at the domestic
0:44.2	US market well in pre-market trading stocks are up and down but they were up the
0:48.2	last time that I checked so we're gonna go with that the biggest news from the
0:50.9	public markets is that Tesla has some plans.
0:53.3	Polling from an SEC filing, here is what you need to know.
0:56.2	The company has requested shareholder approval for its upcoming 2022 annual meeting for an
1:00.8	increase in the number of authorized shares of common stock in order to
1:03.9	enable a stock split other companies common stock in the form of a stock
1:07.2	dividend. All right, fair enough. Well investors love this shares of Tesla are up
1:11.0	six percent in pre-market trading and the company is worth
1:13.8	about a thousand dollars per share so a split does make some sense and we have
1:17.3	seen recently Amazon announce a 20 for-one stock split along with a 10 billion
1:21.3	stock buyback so obviously mega tech companies are
1:24.9	thinking about their share price and what needs to change. Now it is also a very
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