Tesla’s busy week, and is fintech having a moment?

Equity

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4.2 • 365 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It’s been more than a minute since Tesla went public, but the EV company was inescapable on TechCrunch this week. From layoffs to pricing changes and more, it was a week dyed deeply in Tesla colors, so we had to chat through the latest. But that was just one element of what we got into on Equity this week. We also dug into Mary Ann’s reporting about Ramp’s latest round — and up valuation — that fit neatly next to Rippling’s own impending fundraise. If you are handling money, it’s a good time to be a startup. The team also dug into Cherub, which wants to connect investors and founders, Maven Ventures’ consumer investing push, and touched on what Mercury is up to. All told, we were fortunate to have Kirsten Korosec along with us this week given the sheer volume, and diversity of news to chew through.

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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.
0:19.0	Today is April 19, 2024. My name is Alex and I'm joined today as always by my dear friends. In one
0:25.7	corner we have Mary Ann Azaveto who brought the smallest water bottle I have ever
0:30.3	seen in my life to this recording. Mary Ann, how is your thirst quinched by merely four ounces?
0:35.0	That's my question.
0:36.0	It's a long story, Alex, but you know, water is water, and we all need to stay hydrated.
0:41.0	Kirstenkorosek, do we need water,
0:43.2	or can we just drink a whole lot of Pepsi
0:44.8	and call it good?
0:45.8	Mm.
0:46.8	As a desert dweller, I have to say, water is more essential than Pepsi.
0:51.8	Yes, you are in the United States state of Arrakis, I believe it's called.
0:56.7	Yes, let the spice flow.
0:58.6	Let the spice flow.
0:59.6	And that's what we call New Mexico and the Northeast because it's roughly as foreign to us as other planets.
1:04.7	All right, on the pod today we have a packed show in the deals of the week column.
1:08.4	We're going to talk about Cherub, then Maven, and then rippling
1:12.8	then the first theme of the week is what the heck is going on over at Tesla
1:17.2	we haven't covered Tesla as much on the show as we did back in the day because it got to be so big
1:22.0	but so much is going on that impacts the
1:23.7	EV world, we just can't say no.
1:25.8	And then we're going to wrap up with a section that I'm calling FinTech.
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