Chain Response, Discovered, Fairness, and The TechCrunch Stay Podcast – TechCrunch

TechCrunch is extra than only a web site with phrases. We’re additionally constructing a rising steady of podcasts centered on probably the most crucial matters regarding the startup and enterprise capital worlds. That will help you discover the proper present on your pursuits, we’ve compiled our audio output from the week right here.

Embedded under is the newest from Chain Reaction, our new and stellar crypto-focused podcast hosted by Lucas and Anita. Additionally, you will discover Found, a long-form bit of labor that goes deep on the actual saga of firm formation from Jordan and Darrell. There’s an audio-only model of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that options founders and buyers discussing profitable pitch decks. Lastly, there’s Equity, TechCrunch’s long-running, Webby award successful, podcast centered on enterprise capital and the newest startup information, hosted by Natasha, Mary Ann, and Alex.

We’ve extra coming, so keep tuned. And if you’re extra into the written over the spoken phrase, effectively we have newsletters on the above matters as effectively.

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 onerous, quite a few different fashionable tokens get crushed, and crypto-aligned public shares like Coinbase and Robinhood see their share costs tank. What prompted 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 lately raised $10 million from Seven Seven Six and launched its NFT venture Moonbirds, which has shortly grow to be one of the fashionable NFT efforts on the market. Hear 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 practically three years as Uber’s R&D head of Superior Expertise Group (ATG). Waabi’s mission is to develop the an AI-first method to hurry up the business deployment of autonomous automobiles, beginning with long-haul vehicles. To take action, her firm raised a $83.5 million Sequence A with Khosha Enterprise’s Sven Strohband main the spherical. Each will converse to Urtasun’s distinctive (and commanding) perspective, and what allowed the corporate to boost the huge Sequence A.

This occasion can also be accessible on YouTube. See upcoming occasions 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 everyday startup-up grind to resolve some critical deeptech points. She talks with Darrell and Jordan about honoring the corporate’s namesake–Venus, the goddess of affection–and loving her clients and her staff effectively, all whereas working to carry the world nearer along with greener, extra environment friendly journey.

Fairness

Episode 513: The dominoes are falling

Good day 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 report 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 not likely superb:

• Shares are down sharply around the globe. And crypto costs, which observe bigger asset costs, are additionally sharply decrease within the final day, and week.
• Uber’s CEO instructed his firm that issues are altering. Adjusted EBITDA is out, FCF is in. Hiring? Going to sluggish. Capital bills? These will get tougher seems, and so forth. In the course of the present, we requested in regards to the slowdown, and the way it might, or might not influence 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 firms, they occur to individuals

That is our Wednesday present, the place we area of interest all the way down to a single matter, take into consideration a query and unpack the remainder. This week, Natasha and Alex requested: What does the newest wave of layoffs imply for tech employees?

The query comes after Natasha’s current Startups Weekly column, “The Great Resignation, meet the Great Reset.” Within the piece, which included a round up of recent 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 purpose 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 last week notes, the frequent thread between most of those layoffs, in line with founders, is that there’s been a shift available in the market and a critical 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 reside, which is all the time good enjoyable, that means that we took some questions from the viewers. If you’d like that model of the present, we have now a YouTube archive of it right here.

For these of you extra into audio, we have now 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 top of iPod, a time to mirror on know-how tendencies.
• The exit of a Fashionable Fertility co-founder, and the MARA spherical bringing extra money to Africa’s fintech scene.
• From there it was onto the Terra crash, Coinbase’s earnings, and the overall 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 in case you have recommendations, or questions. Onward!