Wordle, hurdles and Sally’s early retirement

Equity

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4.2 • 372 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex, Natasha and Mary Ann enjoyed yet another edition of Equity Live this week, hopping on Twitter Spaces to chat everything from Musk’s meme suit to a new take on Wordle that landed Spotify’s attention. When we stopped recording the episode, news broke that Stripe is cutting its internal valuation by 28%. Luckily, we do this three times a week to stay tuned for our take soon. In the mean time, here’s what we got to in today’s episode: Spotify acquired Heardle, which felt like a throwback to trivia and of course a nod at its famous predecessor, NY Times-owned Wordle. Only one of us has played the music guessing game so far, so tweet @equitypod your thoughts on if it’s actually fun. We also spoke about a startup that is trying to address male infertility in a personalized, engaging way. It caught investors attention, and ours too. Our last deal of the week, Continuum, gave us a chance to talk about productizing one of the worst jobs in startups: laying folks off. The fractional work play feels even more important given the volatility of startups across all stages right now. Hopin, for example, conducted its second layoff within four months this week and parted ways with its COO, CFO and other executives. Medium had an executive shake up, with Ev Williams stepping down. The last two themes of the episode were built around Instacart and the future of grocery delivery, as well as the latest of the Twitter and Elon Musk saga. Equity drops every Monday at 7 a.m. PDT and Wednesday and Friday at 6 a.m. PDT, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. 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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0:18.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. My name is Alex and I am joined today as always by Senior Decorant reporter and ed tech early stage fin tech guru
0:24.3	Natasha mauskarenis that enough job titles for you like do I cover ed tech anymore
0:29.4	I guess I do in some capacity you'll see more stuff for me soon but yeah that'll do
0:33.9	Alex how are you I'm really good I'm on this bagel kick I've just been eating a ton of
0:37.9	bagels lately let me tell you it's revolutionized my life I've actually been in a
0:42.3	better mood because of
0:43.2	strawberry cream cheese and extra carbs. So yeah, hanging on there. I'm a rap girl these
0:47.9	days, so I hear you. Raps are good. I've gone to open-faced sandwiches just to kind of
0:52.0	come back on my car intake and preserve more for candy.
0:55.0	Ugh, it's brutal.
0:56.0	Sorry about that intramarian, how are you doing?
0:58.0	Oh no, I'm good, but now you made me hungry, so I'm probably going to have a bagel after this show.
1:03.0	Good, good. I really do think that the world could really help itself quite a lot by just having more
1:08.2	donuts and bagels in general. Everyone would be fed and happy and it wouldn't be so grumpy all the time.
1:12.4	Twitter would be better, you and and so grumpy all the time.
1:12.5	Twitter would be better, you know, less stressy.
1:14.8	I think it would be enough.
1:15.2	Don't talk about Twitter yet.
1:17.5	Well, speaking of Twitter, while we are live here on Twitter spaces,
1:21.6	at the end of this recording, we're gonna go ahead and just hang out for a bit.
1:24.5	So if anyone wants to harass us with questions, feel free to do so. Just tweet them at the main
1:28.7	tech-wrench account and we'll collect them and answer them at the tail end of the show. And if you weren't here for the pre-show, quick rundown, we're talking about
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