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 I am

joined today by Senior Tech Much reporter on the FinTech Beat. It's Marianne

Zvedo. Marianne

hi how excited are you about our second tranche of look back equity content.

I'm really excited it's we've got some interesting things we're going to talk

about and it just blows my mind still that we're at the end of 2023

Yes, a very very long year that also wouldn't buy very very quickly, but it won't just be Marianne and myself.

We are going to bring in two guests from the Techunch team

to walk us through the particulars of some major news stories.

So on the pod today, looking back at the year,

we're talking about the S. V. Crash and the ensuing aftermath.

Then crypto goes to court. What happened with the SBF trial? What's up with CZ?

And where is crypto now? And then of course we'll wrap up with the unavoidable open AI saga

digging into the chaos at the leadership level of that particular concern

and where we are again as the year comes to a close.

But Marianne, let's spin the clock backwards to early in the year Silicon Valley Bank decided to make a number of financial moves that I read about and I thought

hey this is pretty interesting but not a big deal.

The rest of the world disagreed, and over the ensuing weekend, Silicon Valley Bank cracked

and fell apart.

So here is a clip from Equity at the time, featuring our friend, Natasha Moskarinis. Give it a listen.

Shall we pick up Friday in which everyone is losing their collective minds and

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