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 Masquerinas and this is our Wednesday show,

where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and

unpack the rest. Today we're asking, why is tech full of copycats and what's the next full

circle moment we can expect? As always, I am joined by the inimitable editor-in-chief of Tech Crunch Plus, and my friend,

Alex, how are you?

I'm doing great.

I just want to say like the headline for the story at the root of this show was so much better than the way we phrased it as a question.

I'm now thinking we should like go back in time just take your headline and slap a question mark at the end of it and say,

huh? I mean I'm kind of down and And we'll give you background on what Alex is alluding to, because it actually started within

slacks between both of us.

Last week, Y-C-C-1-C announced that it was launching, LaunchYC, which is kind of this platform where people can

sort through accelerator startups by industry batch and vote up and down and if

it sounds familiar it is because it sounded very much like product hunt and so you're

slack to me Alex when you something the link was why see launches

product touch question mark right well I mean that was my first thought I looked at this and I was

like wait a minute why see is already an accelerator, a global, you know, like remote accelerator

it's got a continuity fund. There's Y C school?

Start up school, yeah. Start up school. They've book life or book face,

their social network for founders.

I don't know, you know what I mean.

And so like they come in increasingly productified.

And so I was surprised to see them come up with something new again

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