Why some VCs are pulling back from Europe, Google’s AI push, and who is the CEO of Byju’s?

Equity

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This is our Monday show, which looks back at the weekend and ahead to the week. We are back bright and early this week, but we also had an extra episode this weekend digging into the Reddit IPO; you can find that here. On the pod this morning, here’s what we got into: Stocks are mixed around the world as crypto prices gyrate; it’s a big earnings week including data from Workday, Zoom, Unity, Coupang, Klaviyo, Salesforce, Snowflake, Okta, and Duolingo among other names. Google, and its work to bring Gemini to a host of hardware endpoints. How U.S-.based venture capitalists are taking on the European market — or not. Interview Kickstart is the latest startup to self-fund for a long time before taking on venture capital. In its case that meant a $10 million round. And to close, who is the CEO of Byju’s? 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, the Tech Ranch Podcast about the business of
0:14.8	startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines.
0:18.8	This is Alex, good morning. Welcome to our Monday show. Today is February 26th, 2024 and today we're going to take a look back at the weekend and a look ahead at the week that is to come.
0:30.0	Before we do that, however, we did drop a short episode this Saturday on
0:34.4	Reddit's IPO so if you want to know the key numbers there and what caught our
0:38.6	eye we have that for you just go back one episode don't't miss it, it's worth your time.
0:43.4	On the show today, we have stocks, crypto, and earnings, Google bringing AI,
0:48.0	everywhere, American investors pulling back from Europe,
0:51.5	how startup interview
0:52.7	Kick Start rode the AI Wave to a fascinating new round.
0:56.1	And really, who is the CEO of Bijus?
0:59.2	Let's go. Let's start with my favorite thing which means money and that means the stock market.
1:07.0	Over in Asia, stocks are mixed today, though a key Japanese index did reach an all-time high.
1:13.4	Shares are lower over in Europe and they are flat in the US in pre-market trading.
1:19.0	But we do have a very busy earnings week ahead of us,
1:22.3	including a number of SAS companies which often have an offset
1:25.6	fiscal calendar. Anyways, on Monday we are going to hear from Work Day and Zoom,
1:31.3	Unity and Grinder, of that group. I think Unity is going to be the most interesting.
1:36.0	Tuesday brings us coupon, splunk, eBay, clavio, Jamp, rocket lab,
1:42.0	Bumble, compass, lemonade, and Next Door.
1:46.1	Clavio, of course, was a 2023 IPO.
1:49.0	Rocket Lab involved space and Lemonade in Shorteck.
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