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Who shuts down the shut down-ers?

Equity

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4.2372 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Here's what Mary Ann, Alex and Kirsten got into: Mentra wants to help neurodivergent jobseekers find ideal jobs: We love a startup that is doing good for itself and doing good for others. This deal that Mary Ann wanted to chat through seems to check both boxes. SimpleClosure raises $1.5 million: What happens if your startup dies, and you need to wind down? You might need a simple way to close things up, right? Enter SimpleClosure. Argo AI founders are building something new: What just raised more than $1 billion to take another crack at self-driving trucks? This company. All Things YC: You can find demo day favorites from day one here, and day two here. And, for an overview of sectors, here you go. EU x Regulation: We wrapped with a quick look at regulation from the EU that will impact a bunch of major tech companies. It led to a conversation of what sort of market regulatory structure is most conducive for startup growth. 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

0:15.1

unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. My name is Alex and I am

0:19.2

joined as I am every Friday by my dear friend, its senior reporter on the FinTech beat Marianne as a veto

0:24.6

Marianne Hi Alex how are you I am slightly like I would say underwater but also like

0:32.3

run over so I'm kind of like run over

0:34.0

underwater is how I feel right now it's been a busy week. You are leading our YC

0:38.4

demo day editorial coverage and that's no easy task. And juggling various other things.

0:44.0

So it has been a few days.

0:46.3

But the good news is, Mary Ann, we are not here as a pair.

0:49.0

We have brought along our dear friend.

0:50.2

It's Kirsten Kaurasek.

0:51.5

Kourson, welcome back to the pod.

0:53.0

Thank God you're here.

0:54.0

Yes, we're so happy you're here.

0:56.0

Yes, I'm glad to be back too.

0:58.0

I'm fresh off of another vacation, like two in a summer.

1:02.0

It's, I don't even know I've turned over a new leaf I'm no

1:06.5

longer a workaholic and I go on two vacations this summer now good for you I mean

1:10.8

teach us your ways one and two I didn't know you were European.

1:14.1

Yeah, exactly. I am trying to take a page from our European colleagues and actually take

1:20.2

vacation. Yeah, really that was a self-hating American comment about how poor our work culture is

1:25.2

versus a disc of our European friends, but I will say we can all work a little bit less than

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