Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we

unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. I'm Natasha Masgrinus and

this is our Wednesday show where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and

unpack the rest. This week we're talking about math. More specifically how companies may use

math in the coming months to make our lives harder and complicate their finances

aka the truth that we all care about the most and as always I am joined by

Alex Wilhelm Alex how did we get on an episode talking about math when I hate it?

I mean I don't know I'm the dumbest child in my family when it comes to math by a margin.

My siblings were like mathletes and I was the one who like was struggling with

fractions when I was like in kindergarten or whatever whenever you learn

fractions anyways it's ironic to the least I wonder what that says about me because I was making a joke as to the fact that you are the smartest

person I know about meth on TC's.

Well, TC's not good at math, we just learned.

But I mean, the joke is obviously as journalists, math is not our everyday,

but it does help us paint a picture of how companies are doing health-wise and financially.

And so that's where we are today, and we are not alone.

We are joined by a TC reporter, but someone who's worn many more hats than that.

Haya Camps is joining.

Thank you so much for making your equity debut, Haya.

Hello, thank you for having me and I'm delighted to be here.

Well, I want to, as I just alluded to, get a little bit into your background before we start.

Tell people what you've done because it is wild and I just learned it in person when we met.

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