The second shot is kicking in

Equity

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. First and foremost, Equity was nominated for a Webby for “Best Technology Podcast”! Drop everything and go Vote for Equity! We’d appreciate it. A lot. And even if we lose, well, we’ll keep doing our thing and making each other laugh. (Note: we are in last place, which is, well, something.) Regardless, the Equity team got together once again this week to not only go over the news of the week, but also to do a little soul searching. You see, some news broke yesterday, so we figured that we had to talk about it in our usual style. So, here's the rundown: Do you want to buy TechCrunch? Apparently you can? Albeit probably along with a few billion dollars worth of other assets -- whatever is left of Yahoo and AOL -- you can now own an NFT. A non-fungible TechCrunch. What is ahead for us? We don't know. So if you do know, tell us. Until then we'll just yo-yo gently between panic and optimism, as per usual. We also dug into the latest All Raise venture capital data, and the results were abysmal. Next up was the news that fintech startups are setting records in 2021, raising more capital than ever before. That brought us to the latest from Brex. And then there was a suspicious trend when three fintech companies focused on teen banking raised in one exhale. We talk Step, Greenlight, and Current. Natasha talked about her last Startups Weekly post, in which she unpacked The MasterClass effect's impact on edtech. And to close, we discussed the latest cool-kid venture capital funds. Sure memes are cool, but did you know that they can help you raise a $10 million fund? They can! We are back Monday morning with our weekly kick-off show. Have a great weekend! 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	Equity is brought to you by Extra Crunch, that Prodigious Tech Ranch Paywell you keep running into.
0:05.0	You can break through that Paywell at a steep discount if you use the promo code Equity.
0:09.0	If you do, you'll get access to our best stuff and you'll make equity look really good internally at the same time.
0:14.0	Enough of that, let's start the show. Hello and welcome back to Equity Tech Ranches
0:29.2	Venture's Venture Capital focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind
0:32.2	the headlines.
0:33.2	My name is Alex Wilhelm and I am joined today by my absolute favorites.
0:36.0	As always, I have Danny Crichton here.
0:38.0	Danny, how are you?
0:39.0	I just got my second shot.
0:40.4	Very excited.
0:41.4	I'm starting to feel like I took two shots at Vaca this morning. So if I'm a little off that's why
0:46.5	We also have Natasha Moscuanus here. Natasha are you double vaxed? I'm gonna get my second shot in like three hours
0:52.2	So me and Danny are both going to
0:54.1	be just like in weird states tomorrow so hold down the site for us.
0:57.2	I'll see you I'll see you on Monday I don't get my second shot for a couple
1:00.0	we see but we staggered these out that way the show wouldn't die was the idea obviously
1:03.4	All right listen normally we would banter and tell some jokes and whatnot but today is kind of a strange
1:07.6	episode for us because for the first time I think probably ever we're gonna talk about ourselves to kick things off because if you didn't see it
1:14.5	last night it was reported that the Verizon Media Group which is owned by Verizon and which owns us
1:19.8	might be sold so we're going to dig into that a little bit. It is an inescapable topic and I'll just
1:23.8	up front we are talking for ourselves, we have no inside information and we are just riffing. So don't take too much seriousness
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