The $2B dollar baby

Equity

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🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We had an illness on the team, so instead of recording our usual Wednesday deep-dive, we reached into our recent archives and pulled the audio from a Twitter space we did the other week. In short, it's a Friday-style episode covering a host of topics, but just a little bit late, and on a different day. The Equity team -- Natasha, Mary Ann, Maggie, Grace, and Alex -- were not about to cut back on feeding you the latest and greatest from the startup world. (Oh, and we have a live show on Thursday, see you there!) What did we talk about? The following: Venture capital rounds for WorkWhile ($13 million) and Alloy Automation ($20 million). Mary Ann's reporting on Forage, focused around where its founders worked before building the fintech startup. Hint: Grocery delivery. Then we dug into the changes at Clearco, and what happens when founder dynamics shift. And we used the story to chat a bit about how the growth focus amongst young tech companies is changing. It was a very good time. Back soon, so chat then! 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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0:15.5	Hey everybody. It's Alex. We are not doing our regular Wednesday recording today because we had an illness on the team. Happily though we do have an episode
0:19.1	from a little bit ago that's essentially a Friday app if you will so we have a lot to talk about today and we have it in the can so Mary Ann Natasha and I are going to be riffing on executive changes at Clerco essentially what is a two billion dollar baby and then we're going to talk about Forge and where its co-founders
0:32.8	came from alloy raising $20 million for e-commerce automation and also what's the
0:37.0	news over at work while in the meantime don't forget this is a live episode
0:41.0	week for us so if you want to tune in on Thursday on Hopin or Twitter Spaces we'll be recording live episode
0:45.0	week for us.
0:48.0	for us so if you want to tune in on Thursday on a group.
0:47.0	It's always a good fun time.
0:48.0	So we'll see you then.
0:49.0	In the meantime, please enjoy.
0:52.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines and I'll just say this.
0:59.6	We had some technical issues getting started, but we persevere here on the the equity team we don't give up and that's because we have Natasha with us and she's lots to say
1:06.7	Natasha hi hello hello we are literally here because we had FOMO from not talking to all of you.
1:13.0	I guess last week and this week,
1:14.6	because we're gonna have a special episode coming out
1:16.3	this Friday.
1:16.8	So this is our treat, our treat of the week.
1:20.8	Yeah, we just can't shut up.
1:22.1	And one of the reasons why we can't shut up
1:23.8	is that Mary Ann keeps writing amazing stuff.
1:25.9	Mary Ann, hello, how are you?
1:27.5	I am great, how are you?
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