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🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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To close out the year, Natasha and Mary Ann and Alex headed to the mic with Grace and Chris behind the scenes. We got to our favorite topics, and honestly, got a chance to just laugh our way through the final innings of the year. Here's what we got to: Factor raised a Seed round for up-chain logistics work, Phylagen is working to track airborne illness, and Notus wants to help you find the right influencer to buy. We also dove into the How Big Can Y Combinator Really Get discussion that Haje kicked off. We don't all agree on this one, so talk it through with us. Then we chatted about Course Hero, edtech, and when it can -- and may not! -- make sense to raise venture capital. To close we dove into Alex's SPAC story about the metaverse, touched on the Reddit IPO, and made fun of whatever garbage this is. And that's our last news round up of the year. Stay tuned for our 2021 look back episode that comes out on Friday, December 24 and our 2022 predictions-meets-manifestations episode that comes out on Friday, December 31st. You can check out our Twitter account for when they go live.Happy Holidays from the Equity family to you and yours. May your days be merry, even if they're in the metaverse. 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 the numbers and the new ones behind the headlines.
0:16.1	My name is Alex and I'm here with the team.
0:18.1	And we are all in a very festive mood. Not because it is the holiday season, though it is for a great many religions and festivals and so forth but also because this is the very last equity recording of 2021.
0:29.5	Our holiday ups are in the can for the next couple of weeks. Guys, this is it.
0:33.0	So the producers can't stop us.
0:35.8	Anything to get off your chest before we start the actual show?
0:38.9	This is the chance to air the grievances and so forth.
0:41.7	I feel like this whole year was really spent like yelling into a mic with all of you so I'm
0:46.6	on an earnest note really grateful.
0:48.8	Also Marion, thanks for joining the show this year.
0:50.6	You've been a great addition to the planning process, the recording process. I mean, I've known you forever, but like you've been a great fit and thank you for your time and effort.
0:57.4	Thank you guys. I'm excited to be here with you. Okay, one more time. Once More Around the Sun, ladies and gentlemen, today we are talking about funding rounds
1:06.9	from Factor, Phylogen, and Notis.
1:09.3	I think it's pronounced Notice, might be Nautis.
1:11.5	We'll see. And then we have Y-Convinators batch size and the implications that are off. We have
1:16.2	Course Hero and kind of the question of venture capital and when it's appropriate to raise it and then how much. And then also we're going to wrap up with a little bit on the
1:23.8	metaverse because how can we possibly avoid the hottest topic of Q4 2021 on the last show of the year?
1:29.9	To kick us off though, factor. Natasha this is a company that I'm actually kind of excited about because we hear so much
1:35.4	about shipping containers, you know, outside of LA stuck on ships, but people don't talk enough
1:39.8	about the other end of the supply chain, the start of it.
1:42.0	I feel like when we think about supply in general to your point we think about those
1:46.0	ships we don't think about a manufacturer ordering supplies.
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