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

this is our Wednesday show where we sit down with a guest, think about their work, and then unpack the rest.

I'm joined today by Mary Ann. Mary Ann, I love doing these as a pair.

How the hell are you?

I'm great. I'm excited to be here be here Alex it's always so much fun to

interview people together. I know it's like all the fun with half the work it's

kind of like the best hack ever and we do have on the show today someone that we're actually very very

excited to talk about. Yeah we've got Janay Tier from Crunchbase which is an old

dear friend and colleague of both of ours. This is almost like getting the band back together. So,

Janay, hi, thanks for coming on the show. How the hell are you?

Hi, I'm Well, and it's absolutely wonderful to see you both and to be back

with you guys. We worked, as you said, at Crunchbase News and it's great to be back with you guys. We worked as you said at Crunchbase News and it's great to be back.

Even more than that like Wake we were down in like the data bunker at Crunchbase and we were on the same like half floor and it was a good time. You know startups have changed going

remote going hybrid but that was kind of the last gasp I feel of like startups

being 100% in person and there was some nice things about it except for Mary Ann of course he was in

Austin but you know yeah but I did visit and when I did visit I felt the warmth I felt the

love it was a cozy space and it was really cool and I all the snacks and just you know everybody's sitting so close together and the

camaraderie like I felt that camaraderie yeah the camaraderie was great but also I remember

spending about half of my time talking to people and not working.

And that's why like offices are great, but not for productivity, my view.

Anyways, Jeunet, you are at Crungebase.

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