TechCrunch is extra than only a web site with phrases. We’re additionally constructing a rising secure of podcasts centered on essentially the most important matters referring to the startup and enterprise capital worlds. That will help you discover the proper present to your pursuits, we’ve compiled our audio output from the week right here.
Embedded beneath is the newest from Chain Response, our new and stellar crypto-focused podcast hosted by Lucas and Anita. Additionally, you will discover Discovered, a long-form bit of labor that goes deep on the true saga of firm formation from Jordan and Darrell. There’s an audio-only model of TechCrunch Stay hosted by Matt that options founders and buyers discussing profitable pitch decks. Lastly, there’s Fairness, TechCrunch’s long-running, Webby award profitable, podcast centered on enterprise capital and the newest startup information, hosted by Natasha, Mary Ann, and Alex.
We now have extra coming, so keep tuned. And in case you are extra into the written over the spoken phrase, properly we’ve got newsletters on the above matters as properly.
Chain Response
Episode 5: Moonbirds founder talks crypto crash and the place NFTs go from right here (with Kevin Rose)
Welcome again, this week Lucas and Anita focus on turmoil and heartbreak within the crypto markets as Bitcoin and Ethereum get hit exhausting, quite a lot of different standard tokens get crushed, and crypto-aligned public shares like Coinbase and Robinhood see their share costs tank. What brought on this massacre? Nicely, a serious catalyst was the disastrous implosion of Terra’s Luna token because of ongoing stablecoin woes.
Of their interview this week, Lucas and Anita chat with Kevin Rose. Kevin is a serial entrepreneur who based Digg within the early 2000s and is now an investor at True Ventures and a co-founder of the Proof Collective. His startup not too long ago raised $10 million from Seven Seven Six and launched its NFT undertaking Moonbirds, which has rapidly change into one of the crucial standard NFT efforts on the market. Pay attention alongside as we focus on the crypto crash and its fallout, and the challenges up forward for NFTs.
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The TechCrunch Stay podcast
Episode 5: Elevating monster rounds for self-driving mobility startups
Raquel Urtasun based Waabi in 2021 after spending almost three years as Uber’s R&D head of Superior Know-how Group (ATG). Waabi’s mission is to develop the an AI-first method to hurry up the industrial deployment of autonomous autos, beginning with long-haul vans. To take action, her firm raised a $83.5 million Collection A with Khosha Enterprise’s Sven Strohband main the spherical. Each will communicate to Urtasun’s distinctive (and commanding) perspective, and what allowed the corporate to boost the large Collection A.
This occasion can also be out there on YouTube. See upcoming occasions right here!
Discovered
Episode 56: Sassie Duggleby, Venus Aerospace
Sassie Duggleby is main the workforce at Venus Aerospace to develop a spaceplane that would go from LA to Tokyo in an hour. As CEO, Sassie units the tone that her workforce doesn’t have to stick to the standard startup-up grind to resolve some severe deeptech points. She talks with Darrell and Jordan about honoring the corporate’s namesake–Venus, the goddess of affection–and loving her prospects and her staff properly, all whereas working to convey the world nearer along with greener, extra environment friendly journey.
Fairness
Episode 513: The dominoes are falling
Howdy and welcome again to Fairness, a podcast in regards to the enterprise of startups, the place we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Each Monday, Grace and Alex scour the information and document notes on what’s happening to kick off the week.
Fortunately as soon as once more we didn’t begin the day by speaking about Elon Musk and Twitter, although the information was probably not superb:
- Shares are down sharply all over the world. And crypto costs, which monitor bigger asset costs, are additionally sharply decrease within the final day, and week.
- Uber’s CEO advised his firm that issues are altering. Adjusted EBITDA is out, FCF is in. Hiring? Going to gradual. Capital bills? These will get tougher appears to be like, and so forth. In the course of the present, we requested in regards to the slowdown, and the way it could, or could not impression the bouyant crypto startup market.
- Neat funding rounds from Pyramid, which raised $120 million, and Paymob, which raised $50 million.
Episode 514: Tech layoffs don’t occur to corporations, they occur to folks
That is our Wednesday present, the place we area of interest right down to a single matter, take into consideration a query and unpack the remainder. This week, Natasha and Alex requested: What does the latest wave of layoffs imply for tech employees?
The query comes after Natasha’s latest Startups Weekly column, “The Nice Resignation, meet the Nice Reset.” Within the piece, which included a spherical up of latest tech layoffs, she explored the concept of worker whiplash, and why this second in pullback is totally different than what we noticed in March 2020.
The objective of the episode was to humanize the tech layoffs we’ve seen ripple throughout the startup ecosystem, from buzzy, massive names like Cameo, On Deck and Robinhood, to B2B platforms like Workrise and Thrasio. As our piece final week notes, the frequent thread between most of those layoffs, based on founders, is that there’s been a shift available in the market and a severe pivot in enterprise is required. A pivot, that’s, that hurts the workers that constructed your product up after excessive demand.
Episode 515: How shut are we to understanding what’s happening?
This week we recorded dwell, which is all the time good enjoyable, that means that we took some questions from the viewers. If you need that model of the present, we’ve got a YouTube archive of it right here.
For these of you extra into audio, we’ve got you coated right here. Natasha, Alex, and Grace teamed up with Julio and Yashad to host the shindig, permitting us to cowl the next:
- The tip of iPod, a time to replicate on expertise tendencies.
- The exit of a Fashionable Fertility co-founder, and the MARA spherical bringing more cash to Africa’s fintech scene.
- From there it was onto the Terra crash, Coinbase’s earnings, and the final sentiment shift within the crypto scene.
- Subsequent up was Tiger and the downturn in startup valuations.
- And we closed on some private notes.
And that’s the rundown from the week — ship us a tweet when you’ve got solutions, or questions. Onward!
