Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpacked the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. Today is January

19th, 2024 and my name is Alex and I'm joined as always by my dear friend and colleague

Marianne Asaveto. Marianne I feel like you and I have been podcasting all week long

but we have more stuff to talk about somehow. We do I I mean, and that's a good thing.

Lots going on.

Yeah, there's used to be this like, you know,

ebb and flow to the new cycle in the tech world

throughout the year, like in August,

everything would shut down,

and then like December through January

was slow not so much anymore I mean we started off this year with a bang it's been busy ever

since I got back on the second I'm kind of impressed that's true it really like I thought I would ease back into the year but no it was like just crazy from the beginning. Yeah, well you know what the good news is we've had lots of fun and if you didn't notice we had

Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures on the podcast yesterday it should be in your

feed so when you have finished with our round up go ahead and listen to that it's a

fantastic interview we've grabbed her right after she wrote a retrospective, a 10 year recap on her original post that coined the term,

unicorn over on Tech Runge. Lots of good stuff in there, data, interesting tidbits, the future

ventures, startups, etc. A hearty recommendation. But on today's show we are

going to talk about a couple of deals of the week, one from Pomello, one from

Tandem, and then one bonus deal from a company that's pronounced

brick but does not spelled the way you think. Then in the first theme we're doing an AI check-in,

uses, risks, and what the C-suite is thinking today and then we'll wrap with

Will Start Up Valuations recover in 2024?

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