Yeah, but is that venture backable?

Equity

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4.2 • 372 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week, Alex and Mary Ann had Sara Mauskopf on the show, the CEO and co-founder of the childcare marketplace, Winnie, and a former Postmates and Twitter denizen. Here’s what we got into: The progress of Winnie over time, and how it found its niche in the childcare market The state of care as a venture-backable category, and where startups can find the most impact and business results The reported issues at Papa and the pressures of fundraising-driven growth in care-oriented markets And, of course, why care work is not given its full due and value in our society. We had a blast with this one. Thank you for sticking with Equity for all these years. We’ll see you live at Disrupt! 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, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack
0:16.4	the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines.
0:19.0	My name is Alex and this is our Wednesday show where we sit down with a guest, think
0:22.4	about their work, and unpack the rest. is our
0:25.0	Wednesday show where we sit down with a guest, think about their work and unpack the rest. Before I introduce our guest for today, however, I am here with my dear friend,
0:28.0	Marianne Asabeto.
0:29.0	Marianne, how are you?
0:30.0	I'm doing great, Alex, how are you?
0:32.0	I'm hanging in there because I've been dealing with a week of not having child care
0:36.7	Which is very apropos to our current conversation today on the podcast. We are bringing on something that we've both known for quite a long time
0:43.6	we're going to talk about her company we're going to talk about its focus and
0:46.7	then we're going to talk about the larger care space and ask the question can you build a
0:51.1	care-oriented company in the startup space?
0:54.2	Is that venture backable?
0:55.3	And what are the tensions that come with
0:56.5	something that's safe and scales?
0:58.6	So please welcome to the show.
0:59.9	We have Sarah Moskoff, the CEO and co-founder of Winnie. Sarah, I've known you for a long time too.
1:04.4	How are you doing and welcome to the show?
1:06.2	I'm doing great.
1:07.2	I'm about to get my new Kelly Green Eagles Jersey.
1:11.2	I'm sure you probably already have one. You should see my
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