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Equity

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4.2 • 372 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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We had the full crew aboard today for our live taping, headed by our killer production team Grace and Chris, and hosting crew Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex. Overall, it was a success? Our streaming tech took us to various Internet platforms, and people came to Hopin and asked questions. Thank you! It's always a risk to do something new, so thank you for making it a win. But enough of all that, what did we talk about? Here's the rundown: Funding rounds from Mos (edtech + fintech), Alchemy (blockchain infra), and Cooks Venture (patented chickens). The last round got the most attention during the recording, leading to questions about the ethics of eating meat. Peloton's news, and the pandemic effect on companies was up next. Or more specifically, the changing impact of the pandemic on companies. Peloton is suffering in the pandemic's wake (although some argue that is due more to mismanagement than the pandemic), but other companies are coming out of the dip in reasonable form. From there we dug into the ethics of venture capitalists having side hustles as consultants. Our read is that the setup is possible to be done ethically, and as the investing market grow a cohort of check-writers with smaller AUMs, some additional work to pay the bills can be unavoidable. The drama was illustrative, if more rude than it needed to be. And we closed with insurtech. After insurtech stocks got hammered, there's some optimism that better days are up ahead. Whew! We're back with another live show in two weeks. Until then, we're back to normal! 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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0:16.4	Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines My name is Alex and before I introduce the crew I'm gonna say we are we're live we're live right now
0:21.6	We're doing this live we haven't done a live show in a long time, but this year we're going to do a live show every two weeks. So Natasha, Marianne, hello, welcome, and how much more effort did you put into your appearance today than usually do? I put on her shirt with sleeves in honor
0:35.6	Yes, that's true not a tank top for once. I know this is effort. Natasha, how are you feeling?
0:41.2	Yeah, I'm the same boat like I I'm not drinking coffee today which is questionable, but I did brush my hair and I wore a shirt
0:48.3	instead of a sweatshirt, so I think I'm evening out my pluses and minuses right now. Marian, how are you feeling?
0:55.1	Yeah, about the same. I tried to like take off the pajama top for once, you know.
1:00.3	We're doing great.
1:01.6	Yeah, this is the most formal equity has been in
1:04.2	sometime the pandemic really has brought us down to a slacker casual maybe is kind of what we
1:09.3	usually look like anyways we're here with all of our friends we're on a bunch of
1:12.0	different platforms.
1:12.8	If you are catching this on your podcast player, we'll tell you about it later on, but every two weeks
1:16.7	we'll be live on Thursdays. And so with that, I think we can jump into the topics, yeah?
1:21.3	Let's do it.
1:21.9	Today, we're talking about funding rounds from Moss,
1:24.3	Alchemy and Cook's Ventures,
1:25.8	then we're going to talk about Peloton and the first quarter of
1:28.2	2022 and what we are seeing out there in the economy for tech companies.
1:32.0	We're going to riff on pitch debt consultancy and how the
1:34.4	venture capital game may not be entirely fair and so we might need to make some changes to
1:39.0	norms and then we're going to talk about in Schurtec and then at the end of this we're going to take questions about whatever.
1:44.8	So it should be an absolute blast.
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