Maybe we shouldn't sue away DEI in venture

Equity

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Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Business, Technology

4.2 • 372 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week, Dominic-Madori Davis came back on the show to chat with Mary Ann and Alex about two of her latest pieces: A lawsuit targeting a grant program that provided small checks to Black women small-business owners. The context here is that there's a movement in the United States to curtail programs that seek to provide access, or opportunity to underrepresented peoples in business and education. Given venture's somewhat embarrassing investment demographics, we struggled to understand the seeming animus behind the suit. Some countries are taking a different track, including the United Kingdom. Dom has more on that topic here. Equity is back on Friday with our weekly news roundup! Talk to you then! For episode transcripts and more, head to Equity’s Simplecast website. Equity drops at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews founders 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 all about the business of startups
0:16.0	where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. My name is
0:19.6	Alex and this is our Wednesday show where we sit down with a guest think about their work and then unpack the rest.
0:25.2	But before we get to our guest today, I have once again tagged in my dear friend,
0:28.7	it's Mary Ann Asafeto. Mary Ann, hi, hello, and as the children's song goes, how are you?
0:33.7	I'm doing great, Alex. Happy to be here today, and how are you?
0:37.6	Well, I'm getting rained on here in the Northeast, and I'm still kind of like getting over
0:42.4	my emotional trauma for my seven-month-old
0:45.0	screaming all the way from PDX to BOS. So I'm a little raw you might say.
0:52.1	That does make a wild recovery from all that.
0:54.0	Give me another week.
0:55.0	And our guest today is Dominic Madori Davis,
0:58.0	the co-host of Tech Ranch's Found Podcast,
1:01.0	one of my coworkers, and I'll just say,
1:02.0	what of Tech Ranch plus is
1:03.6	absolute finest. Don welcome to the show and I do hear that you are in New York City so
1:08.4	there are some sirens in the background. Hey I'm good how are you? You know
1:12.1	hanging in there.
1:13.0	I love when we do these, the kind of podcast crossover things,
1:15.0	because I get to kind of say nice things about your show.
1:17.0	Dom, Found is fantastic.
1:18.0	How often doesn't come out and where can people find it?
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