What founders can escape venture's no-man's land?

Equity

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week, Alex spoke to Anu Hariharan, who’s previously worked with a16z, sits on Brex’s board, and more recently has been investing in later-stage companies at Y Combinator. She's also working on something new. Hariharan recently tweeted about how "great" founders were successfully guiding their companies towards cash flow positivity. Since that very interesting post, both Instacart (a former Y Combinator company) and Klaviyo have filed to go public. And both have super strong cash flows. Our chat could not have come at a better time. We dug into how early- and late-stage startups should approach growth and cash conservation (in her view), the future of venture as an asset class, and how healthy the unicorn herd really is. We had a blast recording this one! Enjoy! For episode transcripts and more, head to Equity’s Simplecast website. Equity drops at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews founders and more! 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	Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines.
0:18.5	My name is Alex and this is our Wednesday show where we sit down with a guest think about their work and unpack the rest.
0:24.0	Today we are joined by Anu Hurry-Haran. She was previously at YEC's later stage investing team.
0:29.4	She also worked at Andresen Horwitz. Before before that the Boston Consulting Group.
0:33.1	She has been around, she knows a lot, she's on the board of Avis, Brex,
0:36.2	whatnot, Monzo, Rapi, and Zepto,
0:38.8	and she had a really great tweet.
0:40.1	So we absolutely had to have on the show, Anu,
0:42.2	welcome to Equity.
0:43.0	Thank you for having me, Alex.
0:44.2	Great to be here.
0:45.1	I'm very excited about this whole conversation
0:47.0	because there's a lot to get through with the recent IPO filings
0:49.5	and all of that, but I know you're no longer at YC and you are working on a new thing called
0:54.1	Avera and I just figured I'd give you 30 seconds to tell people what's going on
0:57.4	there so what are you working on now? So we're building something called
1:00.6	Avra it means I was so close that's, it means, I was so close. That's okay. It means I will create. What we are essentially
1:06.9	building is for CEOs who are post-series A, building a batch-based program to help them scale as
1:15.6	CEOs as they're scaling their companies from 3 to 15 million in revenue and
1:20.6	building teams from 2, 200 plus people.
1:23.4	We saw this as a gap while at YC,
1:25.8	and we within YC had several products and initiatives
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