Who shuts down the shut down-ers?
Equity
TechCrunch
4.2 • 372 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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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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