Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast all about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and the new ones behind the headlines

My name is Alex. This is our Friday show which means I have the whole crew with me this week. We are all back together

Mary Ann Azavito is here Mary Ann hello and the whole crew with me this week we are all back together.

Mary Ann Ezevedo is here. Mary Ann, hello, and How's Life?

I am so happy to be here with you guys this week.

I can't even express how much.

It has been a week of ups, a week of downs, but we have all made it here mostly in one piece, and that includes

Natasha Moskarinis. Natasha, hi, you were back home where you belong, how are you doing?

I am so happy to be home and as we were talking about before this recording, equity kind of feels like when you're in a plane or like enter a place of worship and you just like can't do anything else other than talk to each other.

So buckle in everyone. We are in that kind of head space today.

That's a good way to describe it.

Is it a podcast? Is it group therapy?

We'll ever know.

But we do have a lot to get to you so I'm going to jump right into the outline here

Just everyone knows where we're going to try a new little format called

Around the Horn News updates and it'll make sense very very soon why we're doing that We're gonna riff through three deals of the week,

Kindred, coin DCX, and then the Chipotle fun,

which is a lot of fun, quite tasty, you might say.

Then we're going to talk about Andreeson Horowitz,

start, and why they're taking on Why Combinator,

pivot over to Netflix, talk about the end of the pandemic era and also kind of make fun of that company just for a hot second

and then we're going to wrap up by talking about the maturing creator economy and why social audio is pivoting

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