What’s the opposite of a lean startup?

Equity

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Here’s the show rundown: Teamshares: Here’s an interesting one. Teamshares has raised a lot of money and is buying a lot of SMBs. But that’s just the start. It also plans to allow employees of those companies to buy most of their stock over time, while serving up centralized fintech services to all its sub-companies. Who doesn’t love to chat about a new model? MoonPay’s new venture arm: Crypto payment infra company MoonPay is getting into the venture game, with a focus on crypto, gaming, and fintech. The union of those three is crypto games, of course, but we have two eyes fixed on what MoonPay decides to invest in. New crypto-thematic, or crypto-adjacent funds are rarer these days, making the MoonPay news exciting. Rent Butter and Kiki: Now that the zero interest rate period is over, and the experiment in building new iBuying and mortgage service startups has partially concluded, renting is hot again. And thus, so too are rental-focused startups. The IPO drought has lasted longer than you anticipated: Working off a Crunchbase dataset, Alex has notes on just how long we have been waiting for real tech IPOs. The good news? They are (partially) back! What happens when you bring lean startup ideology into the AI world? A lot of experiments, it turns out. And that is us until next week. Due to an American holiday, Equity will kick off on Tuesday next week instead of Monday! 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 foundersand 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
0:15.4	unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. My name is Alex and I am
0:19.3	joined as I am each and every Friday by my dear friend, it's Senior Tech Lynch
0:22.4	reporter on the FinTech Beat,'s Marianne Asavito and Marianne
0:26.0	there has been no news from Techwinch this week not at all nothing has happened
0:30.0	such a quiet uneventful week here at Tikron, Jallix.
0:33.6	I know.
0:34.6	I mean, feet up, beach towel down, flip-flops off, you know, I'm just chilling.
0:39.2	Put a little like umbrella in my drink, you know, it's good.
0:42.1	I feel like we should say something though because people are going to be like tuned in and thinking like, yes, I agree.
0:47.2	So what I wanted to say was, Connie, who's now in charge of like all things tech-runch, was on on the show was on equity for a long time
0:53.6	back in the day yes that's right for our listeners who aren't aware
0:56.8	Connie Loizos who was I think her previous title was Silicon Valley editor is
1:01.7	now going to be Tech Crunch's editor-in-chief and general manager.
1:06.3	Her strictly VC newsletter has been acquired by Tech Crunch, so exciting times here.
1:11.6	Lots of change, exciting changes.
1:13.7	And I think this is just equity ascendancy
1:16.1	because now both people at Tech Ranch
1:18.5	who have an editor-in-chief title
1:20.4	are either active equity people, me, or equity alums, Connie.
1:24.6	That's right.
1:25.6	Take it over.
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