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Equity

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🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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What did we get into? Well, a host of pretty awesome stuff, even if we had to leave Cute Farming Robots in the tank for another few days: We had funding rounds from Anyplace, which is building a way to make the digital nomad life work in a WFH world, notes on Frost Giant's Series A, which Alex really needs to finish writing up, and Parthean, which Natasha covered and did a great job explaining. Here's to better financial literacy in general. We need it. Then we chatted through what Mark Cuban is doing with his generic drug play, which we think is at once great (cheaper meds for the folks who need them!) and somewhat sad (how did we get here as a society?). Which of course led us into a conversation about public and private money, and the role that billionaires play in reshaping society. Next up was a YC credit union DAO that is collecting money from graduates of the accelerator to invest in cyrpto startups. So its a founder rolling fund, right? Kinda. MENTOR COLLECTIVE And that's a wrap on another busy week. Good luck in the snow if it's coming your way! 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 about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines.
0:16.0	My name is Alex and I'm joined today by the Friday crew, including our very young Natasha Moscuanis, a senior reporter here at Tech Ranch, Natasha, Hi.
0:23.0	Hello, hello. I am four days into my Twitter hiatus, and I'm feeling so excited to like
0:28.2	catch up on everything with all of you in real time.
0:30.7	I'm just looking forward to what I don't have to send you tweets on slack because that is a very
0:34.6	inefficient way of sharing the news but for you anything. We also have Marianne
0:39.7	Azavito another one of our senior reporter crew, Marion, hello, how are you holding up?
0:44.0	I am doing great, but not on a Twitter break.
0:46.8	Yes.
0:47.8	Natasha, how bad is the withdrawal so far, four days in?
0:51.2	I keep opening it up and then shutting it off but I also have checked
0:54.4	DMs and I'm going to Twitter Space later so I'm doing great and not addicted
0:58.8	at all. Is this like walking out of rehab to the liquor store and then walking back into rehab and saying,
1:04.0	like, I'm still here, you know, come on now.
1:06.2	It's draining, but I feel clearer.
1:08.8	So maybe I'll keep it up.
1:10.7	Let us know how it goes.
1:11.5	I actually, I would love to talk about that later on, but today we have so much to get there, including funding rounds from any place, frost giant, and parthian. We're going to talk about Mark Cuban pharmacy, the American health care system, and where private and public money should and should not land.
1:25.3	And then we're gonna riff about the Wycy C crypto collective.
1:28.0	Strap in for that one.
1:29.1	And then also mentor collective Ed Tech
1:31.3	and how to help folks fit in more.
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