Equity
860 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★ - 321 ratingsThe intersection of technology, startups, and venture capital touches everything now. That’s why Equity, TechCrunch's flagship podcast, digs into the business of startups for entrepreneurs and enthusiasts alike. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, TechCrunch reporters keep you up-to-date on the world of business, technology, and venture capital.
Equity is ranked the No.2 podcast in the Top 100 Venture Capital All time leaderboard on Goodpods—As well as No.17 for the Top 100 Finance All time chart and No.32 for the Top 100 Business News All time chart.
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Peloton pedals toward an IPO, self-driving is big business and SaaS's new highs
February 15, 2019 14:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a treat. We had TechCrunch's own Connie Loizos in the studio along with your humble servant and General Catalyst's Niko Bonatsos. A fine group for a busy week. We had to pare our topic list some for length, but after working out what qualified as the biggest news from our usual orbit, we decided to touch on: Peloton's bank shopping: Peloton, the p...
Spotify <3 podcasts, Calm becomes a unicorn and Reddit's Series D
February 08, 2019 14:00 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBHello, and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Kate Clark and I sat down to get through the biggest news in the venture and startup world. This is our regular episode of the week after a shot focused on the Slack IPO, and an interview concerning Facebook. So, back to our roots. And as has been the case for months and months now, there was a lot to get through. Podcasting took center stage this wee...
Equity Interview: Roger McNamee is certain Facebook is destroying our democracy
February 05, 2019 17:32 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBFamed investor Roger McNamee once advised Facebook. Now he's certain it's destroying our democracy.
Equity Shot: Slack's Confidential IPO Filing
February 04, 2019 21:45 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBNo, I haven’t started drinking again, Equity Shots are short takes on breaking news. And no news was more explosive recently than word that Slack has filed to go public confidentially. Confidentially in that we don’t get to see the numbers (yet), but publicly in that the company went ahead and told the world that it had filed, privately, with the SEC.
Everyone Raises $100M, Pinterest And Zoom Want To Go Public, And HelloSign
February 01, 2019 14:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we recorded as a trio: Connie Loizos holding down the studio with our guest, the ever-present Jeff Clavier of Uncorked Capital. I dialed in from the what was the East Coast, back before it froze over.
Scooters 2.0, Munchery ghosts, and solving contraceptive deserts
January 25, 2019 14:00 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had the gang back together with our own Connie Loizos at the helm, Kate Clark in the studio as well, Alex on the phone, and Ed Sim from Boldstart Ventures onboard as well. A good crew for a busy week.
More scooter dollars, Slack’s revenue projections, and the IPO traffic jam
January 18, 2019 14:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We’re back! After what I think was our first-ever break, Kate Clark and I sat down to dig into the latest startup venture news. There was a lot. We had to skip a few rounds to squeeze the show down to size, but we still hit the biggest stories.
Bradley Tusk on mobile voting, Uber's IPO race with Lyft and the Dems taking over the House
December 28, 2018 14:00 - 27 minutes - 25 MBWith everyone logging valuable family time this week and wondering if it's worth returning that sweater, we decided to do something a little different and run a special holiday episode, one that features just Connie Loizos in conversation with Bradley Tusk, a venture capitalist, philanthropist, book author and, earlier in his career, a trusted aid to billionaire Michael Bloomberg, whose successful third run for mayor of New York -- the first and only mayor to serve three consecutive terms --...
SoftBank's triple, Pinterest is going public, and the market meltdown
December 21, 2018 14:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBThis week we had 75 percent of the core crew on hand to chat: Connie Loizos, Danny Crichton, and myself. Kate will be back on the show early next year, we promise. We were also joined by Menlo Ventures' Venky Ganesan who was a super great addition to the team. There was a lot to get through. In fact, we had to toss a few things overboard toward the end due to time. So, we didn't get to US-China cross-border venture flows, or the new Lightspeed China fund, but we did dig into: SoftBank's la...
Ridesharing IPOs and $850M for Luckin, Plaid and Zymergen
December 14, 2018 14:00 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBThis week we had the regular crew back together which was good fun. Connie took point, we had Danny mic'd up in New York, and I was onsite to help the crew natter along with Bubba Murarka, a former VC and founder who now cuts checks on his own. Thematically, this was a week of mega rounds so we had little choice but to go over more than a few. And Uber is out there doing its IPO thing. So, we started with cars and pivoted into rounds.
Lyft's going public, Uber's eyeing Bird, Utah's tech scene, and trade tensions
December 07, 2018 14:30 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBThis week we had Connie Loizos in the studio along with Kate Clark, myself and a special guest. The special guest was fitting, as it was a special episode. Why? Because this is our 100th episode, a milestone that would have probably seemed a silly idea back when we started the show. This week our first guest, SaaStr founder and venture capitalist Jason Lemkin came back on the show. When he first showed up, we talked Elon Musk. This time it was ridesharing liquidity, ridesharing M&A and more...
Asana raises $50M, Airbnb gets a new CFO, and a 2019 IPO preview
November 30, 2018 14:00 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBThis week we hit two news items and one roundup: Asana raises $50 million. Yep, Asana went back to the funding well this week for its Series E, despite having raised a $75 million Series D earlier this year. The company's funding pace might seem aggressive, but we're hearing that many startups are looking to tack on extra cash. Why? Because the market might change, and so the savvy are stacking chips in case the cashier closes. Oh, and the company dropped a number of relative growth metrics...
A Thanksgiving-ish special episode
November 23, 2018 14:00 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. It's the day after Thanksgiving, so if you are reading this in America I hope there is a pet leaned up against your legs and that you are sitting next to a fire while staring down one more plate of leftovers. We made this episode for just such a moment. Welcome to our take on a relaxed episode of Equity, a show normally featuring four people arguing about this o...
Uber's financials, Qualtric's $8B exit, and what's going on at WeWork
November 16, 2018 14:00 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBThis week, Uber was first in line due to the scale of its results. The firm disclosed its third-quarter results including slowing growth (in percentage terms), steep losses on a GAAP basis (GAAP means that all costs were counted) and adjusted losses that fell in the period. Next up was the big deal of the week, effectively. The Qualtrics exit to SAP for $8 billion in cash, a portion of which it borrowed, as we point out. The deal meant that the company didn't actually go public (boo), but i...
SoftBank's debt, Ford buys Spin, and Chinese coffee is huge money
November 09, 2018 14:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a blast. Connie and I were in the studio with our guest, True Ventures's Tony Conrad, while Danny repped the other side of the country, dialing in from New York. It was another week shaped by news from Asia. Once we had sorted the sartorially expedient, we first turned to the world of SoftBank, this time taking a close look at its debt load. While ...
Fortnite’s funding royale, China struggles, and Coinbase gets a boost to $8 billion
November 02, 2018 13:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week, we missed Alex Wilhelm, who was sunning himself somewhere (vitamin D deficit), but we had a rollicking time nonetheless with TC's very excellent VC reporter Kate Clark, along with our always dependable co-host Danny Crichton and, in a bit of perfect timing, investor Brad Twohig of Lightspeed Venture Partners, whose firm participated in one of the week's...
Market turmoil, billion dollar funds, and the Qualtrics IPO
October 26, 2018 13:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week the normal band was together, with Connie Loizos, Danny Crichton, and myself on hand along with IVP investor Jules Maltz. We had yet another episode of market turmoil, that was again reversed to some extent before we could even talk about it. Our questions are somewhat simple: when does all this public market mayhem begin to impact private markets? Malt...
Twilio shops, Uber and Lyft IPO scuttlebutt, and Instacart raises $600M
October 19, 2018 13:00 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had the Three Excellent Friends (Connie Loizos, Danny Chrichton, and Alex Wilhelm) on hand to kick things about with Scale Venture Partner's own Rory O'Driscoll. As I've written the last few weeks, what a pile of news we've had recently. And like the last few episodes, we had to pick and choose what to drill into. This week: Twilio-Sendgrid, Palanti...
Blood capital and gobs of cash for WeWork, smiles, and vegetables
October 12, 2018 13:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had a good crew on the show. We had Connie Loizos and Danny Crichton from TechCrunch, I scampered over from the Crunchbase News domicile, and Brian O'Malley, a general partner with Forerunner Ventures, joined us to us to round out the collective. It was yet another packed episode. There's so much going on in the venture world that we can't get to it...
Elon's sick burn, Coinbase funding rumors, and VC hiring trends
October 05, 2018 13:00 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a treat. We had Danny Crichton in the studio. We had Connie Loizos in the studio. I was in the studio. And our guest, the excellent Andy McLoughlin, a partner at UnCork Capital, was in the studio as well. Thus it was with much enthusiasm that we first got to talk about the latest Elon Musk tweet to move Tesla's stock, causing the famous CEO's best-...
SoftBank pays big, SurveyMonkey goes public and JUUL's next step
September 28, 2018 13:00 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week on Equity, the gang was back together. We had the ever-excellent Connie Loizos on hand, along with TechCrunch's Danny Crichton, and myself, on loan from Crunchbase News. Even better we had Iris Choi on the show. When she's not hanging out with us for the pod, she's a partner at Floodgate. This week was another that offered a panoply of topics that we co...
Eventbrite goes public, and everyone else is raising hella money
September 21, 2018 13:00 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBThis week we worked with an (excellent) skeleton crew. Our own Connie Loizos held down the fort with a guest that knew quite a lot: March Capital's Jamie Montgomery. There was a healthy blizzard of news to get through, so Connie and Jamie plowed ahead. Up top, the Eventbrite IPO was big news. After a long path to going public, Eventbrite reported interesting revenue growth acceleration, attached to a standard set of GAAP net losses. (Standard in that most tech IPOs these days do not featur...
Crypto's second bubble, Juul has 60 days and three Chinese IPOs
September 14, 2018 13:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. After a long run of having guests climb aboard each week, we took a pause on that front, bringing together three of our regular hosts instead: Connie Loizos, Danny Chrichton, and myself. Despite the fact that there were just three of us instead of the usual four, we got through a mountain of stuff. Which was good as it was a surprisingly busy week, and we didn't ...
Live from Disrupt SF: Peak Valley Edition
September 07, 2018 16:29 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was incredibly fun. We recorded live from the first floor of TechCrunch's Disrupt SF confab, putting us right in the middle of the action. So it was good that we had a full crew on hand to natter about the news. From TechCrunch, Connie Loizos and Danny Chricton were on deck, along with myself. In addition to us regulars, Garry Tan joined in. He's a manag...
Tesla’s drama, China-based companies are listing in the U.S., and SurveyMonkey is (finally) going public
August 31, 2018 13:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBThis week, we were a man down, with the excellent Alex Wilhelm of Crunchbase News on a vacation that someone seems to have sanctioned, though it was not us, as we don’t believe in vacations. (Wilhelm, get back here.) We did, happily, have the very knowledgeable Kirsten Korosec of TechCrunch join us on the line; we were also joined by this week’s personable in-studio guest: Lauren Kolodny, a partner at the San Francisco-based, early-stage venture firm Aspect Ventures. It was the perfect mix ...
Zoox loses its CEO, Eventbrite is going public, and megarounds for Slack, One Medical, and Getaround
August 24, 2018 13:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had a full house which was super great. TechCrunch's Connie Loizos and Sarah Buhr held down the fort in San Francisco along with our guest, Susan Mac Cormac, a partner at Morrison Foerster where she works on some of the most interesting deals in the private capital space. I dialed in from the home office in Providence. It was good that we had eight h...
Taking Tesla Private, WeWork And Uber Earnings, And What Happened To Crypto
August 17, 2018 13:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBProduction note: Alex’s mic was a bit whack until the 16-minute mark. Please forgive the issue, we noticed and fixed it as fast as we could. Hugs and love! Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a corker. We had Alex Wilhelm in-studio with our guest Minal Hasan, founder of K2 Global, and TechCrunch’s Danny Chriton jumped in from New York to help the crew dig through the biggest and best ...
Slack raises, Dropbox and Snap report earnings, and Magic Leap is real
August 10, 2018 13:00 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Matthew Lynley and Alex Wilhelm were joined by 500 Startups CEO Christine Tsai for what turned out to be a super packed episode. We kicked off with the latest from Slack: $400 million new dollars at a shiny, new $7 billion valuation, according to TechCrunch. The new capital comes after the firm raised a huge sum last year from SoftBank's Vision Fund. W...
Cisco buys Duo, Brandless raises $240M, and Apple broaches $1T
August 03, 2018 13:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week TechCrunch's Matthew Lynley and Crunchbase News's Alex Wilhelm were joined by Jyoti Bansal, the founder of AppDynamics and a partner at Unusual Ventures, among other startup work. Our own Connie Loizos was off this week. This episode was effectively a news grab-bag. There's a little of everything: public company drama, big rounds, acquisitions, and mor...
Facebook’s debacle, $100M rounds, and Slack links up with Atlassian
July 27, 2018 13:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This was one hell of a week. Happily, we had our own Connie Loizos, Matthew Lynley, and Alex Wilhelm on hand, along with Initialized Capital's Alexis Ohanian to pick over the mix. First up we had zero choice but to talk about Facebook. The social company's epic repricing in the middle of the week blotted out the news sun. It may keep us in the shade for another w...
Zoox's fresh $500M, how to spend $6.3B and Microsoft's fine fiscal year
July 20, 2018 13:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had another full house which made for a good time. Our own Connie Loizos, Matthew Lynley and I were joined by Renata Quintini, a partner at Lux Capital. Today's episode is a grab bag of topics, including some self-driving stuff, late-stage venture noodling, and Microsoft. So, this show hit on every topic I used to have listed on my OkCupid profile. ...
Uber gets into scooters, every VC is raising, and why private equity loves SaaS
July 13, 2018 13:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had the full crew in the studio along with a friend. The excellent Connie Loizos hosted, and Matthew Lynley and I were both on as well, along with our guest this week: Graham Brown, a partner at Lerer Hippeau, an early-stage venture fund based in New York. We took a slightly different tack this episode. Yes, scooters came up, but we have some later-s...
Lyft goes biking, Airbnb is going public (eventually), big money for software robots, and Juul
July 06, 2018 13:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we were back in the studio with Connie Loizos and myself hanging out with Jai Das, a managing director at Sapphire Ventures. Our beloved Matthew Lynley was off this week, but he’ll be back for the next episode. This week we had an excellent list of things to get to, first of which was Lyft’s latest shopping run. This time Lyft accreted to itself Motivat...
Bird and Lyft raise $900M, a16z launches a crypto fund, and $6B more for Sequoia
June 29, 2018 13:00 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Connie Loizos and I were joined by Norwest’s Scott Beechuk. Sadly, Matthew Lynley was reading slam poetry to ambivalent cacti in the Sonora Desert and thus couldn’t join us. He’ll be back soon, we promise. But we had a good crew on deck and a grip of news to sift, so let’s get to what we got into. First up was the latest headlines in the on-demand tran...
Twitter buys a startup to battle harassment, e-cigs are booming, and a meditation app is worth $250M
June 22, 2018 13:00 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week TechCrunch's Silicon Valley Editor Connie Loizos and I jammed out on a couple topics as Alex Wilhelm was out managing his fake stock game spreadsheets or something. (The jury is out on whether this was a good or bad thing.)
Scooters go mad, Opendoor wants to buy your house, and Meituan’s IPO
June 15, 2018 13:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was something of a first for the crew, twice. First, we had two guests on the show, and, also, we only made it through two and a half topics. The former is good, the latter is, well, we’ll see. So, this week Matthew Lynley and I were joined by David Chao, co-founder and general partner at DCM, and Steve Vassallo, a general partner at Foundation Capital....
GitHub's epic exit, Domo's dicey math, and Dataminr's big raise
June 08, 2018 13:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This time ’round we had Connie and Alex on hand with Brian Ascher, a longtime partner with Venrock down in Palo Alto, Ca. It was a surprisingly busy week, so we had our work cut out us. Without further ado: Github! The biggest story in tech this week was right up our alley: Microsoft bought the venture-backed GitHub for $7.5 billion, bringing a massive portion o...
More funding for scooters, Cruise gets a boost, and Chinese IPOs
June 01, 2018 13:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was fun. Back in the studio, Connie Loizos, Matthew Lynley, your humble servant, and Ramneek Gupta, managing director of Citi Ventures was with us to provide the venture perspective. As you can probably guess, we got a bit stuck in Bird’s nest, trying to vet why the young company is hoping to punch its unicorn card in nigh-record time. The firm’s potent...
Rover's epic raise, Uber's Q1 results, and a trio of IPO's
May 25, 2018 13:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was fun for a few reasons. First, it was our own Connie Loizos’s first time leading, and it was our very first regular episode that included us recording remotely. I mention that as Matthew Lynley and I were each in different places, meaning that we had a bump or two to smooth out. Your patience is more than appreciated. Happily, we didn’t have to adven...
Circle raises $110, VCs hunt liquidity, and the Vision Fund's possible twin
May 18, 2018 13:00 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Today Matthew Lynley, Connie Loizos and I were joined by Semil Shah, the founder of seed-stage fund Haystack and venture partner at Lightspeed. This week, we stuck to our roots: big rounds, venture capital liquidity thirst, one IPO, two Vision Funds, and three scooter jokes. Maybe more than three, but who is counting. First up we took on Circle's new $110 millio...
Robinhood raises, Flipkart exits, and MoviePass is running out of cash
May 11, 2018 13:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-themed podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Matthew Lynley, Connie Loizos and myself were joined by Villi Iltchev, a partner at August Capital. It was good that we had a full crew on deck, as the news flew thick and varied this week. In honor of the news cycle, we took on as much of it as we could inside a single episode. And as we’re sure that you guessed, we had to talk about the Flipkart-Walma...
Tesla, Apple, Spotify earnings and the DocuSign, Smartsheet IPO Recap
May 04, 2018 13:00 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBToday is Katie Roof's last day on Equity. She will be missed as she moves on to her next endeavor. This week she was joined by TechCrunch's Connie Loizos and M.G. Siegler from Google Ventures. They talked Tesla, Apple, Spotify earnings and the DocuSign and Smartsheet IPO Recap
Everyone beats earnings, racing to $1 trillion, and Square goes shopping
April 27, 2018 13:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBToday Katie Roof and I were joined by James Hardiman, a partner at Data Collective (DCVC). If you want to tell him how he did, he's on Twitter here. It was good to have Hardiman on board as there was an ocean of news to swim through. Indeed, we are in the middle of earnings seasons, companies can't stop from buying one another, and the IPO window is stuck wide open. So we decided to just do everything. Here's how it broke down. Earnings Facebook's earnings had two purposes. First, the co...
Coinbase buys a startup, Discord’s a unicorn and Netflix soars
April 20, 2018 13:00 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week TechCrunch's Katie Roof and Crunchbase News's Alex Wilhelm sat down with Science Inc's Michael Jones to dig through the latest in the world of technology and money. And goddamn was there some stuff to get through. On our even-more-stuffed-than-usual agenda this week we first dug into the Coinbase-Earn.com deal, and how it came to be. This raised the que...
VCs are hungry for Instacart, big money for bikes and a slew of enterprise IPOs
April 13, 2018 13:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBThis week was a damn corker. Instacart is fighting back! Zuora went public and it went well! There were other IPOs! Uber loves bikes! And what is #AllRaise? We happily had a good crew on hand to sift through the mix, including Katie Roof, myself, and Kara Nortman, a general partner at Upfront Ventures. Up top we dug into the massive new Instacart round, the completion of its Series E. The new $150 million brings Instacart's valuation to a staggering $4.35 billion, up from $4.2 billion when ...
Spotify steadies, DocuSign’s big year, and scooters are the new blockchain
April 06, 2018 13:00 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Katie Roof and I were joined by David Welsh, part of KKR’s growth equity shop. (His formal title: Member and Head of TMT Growth Equity, where “member” actually means “partner,” it turns out.) And what a week it was. There was news aplenty to get through, not the least of which that Spotify’s shares — as of airtime, at least — were being pretty reasonab...
Equity Shot | Spotify
April 04, 2018 00:30 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Katie Roof and Alex Wilhelm were joined by David Golden who Managing Partner at Revolution to talk about Spotify's direct listing.
DocuSign files, IPOs pile up, Dropbox soars and the markets gyrate
March 30, 2018 13:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Katie Roof and Alex Wilhelm were joined by Byron Deeter of Bessemer Venture Partners, who was an excellent selection to have on deck as we tooled through the most recent news. And there was a lot to get through, as a host of companies have decided to go public before the markets turn south.
Equity Shot | Dropbox goes public and who's looking in the IPO window
March 23, 2018 18:26 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBWelcome to the Dropbox Equity Shot! Today Katie Roof sat down with Eric Kim, who wrote the Dropbox research report for Goodwater capital. Eric breaks down the Dropbox IPO and looks ahead to the IPOs coming down the pipeline, explaining along the way how open the IPO window is today.
Facebook says “oops” and Dropbox with a wave of enterprise IPOs
March 23, 2018 13:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBWelcome to "Equity," TechCrunch's venture capital and tech business podcast. Hosted by Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley, and Alex Wilhelm For this week, we talked about the wave of enterprise IPOs. And we were joined by Dharmesh Thakker, a general partner at Battery Ventures. He was the perfect guest because he specializes in enterprise and Battery is pretty good at it. We also talked about Facebook's privacy debacle. First up, we talked about Dropbox pricing its long-awaited IPO. It priced at $...