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Equity

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🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic and dive deep. This week Natasha and Mary Ann and Alex came together to talk about the changing nature of due diligence in the startup market. The chat was loosely centered around a piece that the three of us wrote as 2021 was coming to a close, but the conversation quickly broadened to include a host of factors that are impacting how startups fundraise, and build today. Mary Ann talked about the power of FOMO, and how that particular social factor is impacting how startups raise. Natasha brought up the importance of back-channeling, and how founders talk to one another. And Alex tried to tease out the difference in how funds of various sizes will approach doing their own diligence, or letting others take on the work. It was all very good fun! You can read the original backing piece on TC+ here, and we're back Friday! 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 unpacked
0:14.2	the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines.
0:16.7	My name is Alex and I'm here with the whole crew.
0:18.8	We're back.
0:19.8	Natasha Moscaranis.
0:20.8	Hello, you're back from Vacation.
0:21.9	How is San Francisco? How are you?
0:23.5	I am doing so good. I missed all of you. I did not miss work as much as I thought I did.
0:28.1	And I just want to go on the record saying that because it seems to be healthy to not
0:31.3	pre-graping work for a few days.
0:34.0	Yeah, we've been a little bit busy.
0:35.0	Mary Ann, you and I have been back for a minute.
0:37.0	How are you doing?
0:38.0	How is Texas? Yeah, well, you know, it's a little colder, finally, which is not such a bad thing.
0:42.0	We're doing all right, you know, just feels like it's been a hectic start to the new year though already and I was I was hoping for a little bit more of an easing in.
0:50.0	We actually did have that. It was one half of last Monday. That's how long it lasted.
0:56.0	Some of my time I get tech meme tweets, like notifications. So like throughout my vacation I would just get like
1:00.8	entries and raised billions and billions of dollars.
1:03.0	Why see change check size and I was like poor Marianne and Alex are probably like have so many
1:08.0	opinions right now.
1:10.0	Yeah, but last Monday when we got back to doing equity the first show of the year, like really there wasn't a lot of startup news that morning.
1:16.4	And then by like noon of that day, the whole, the engine had kind of revved back up.
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