Equity Podcast
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2021 Webby award winner for best technology podcast | Part of the @TechCrunch Podcast Network | https://t.co/XNiHuixlo4
Joined December 2017
Amazon will reportedly invest up to $10B in OpenAI...who will use that money to buy Amazon's products. @EquityPod asks: How do we even define real revenue with all these circular deals? Listen here: https://t.co/qqMrnyUN4D
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Big week on TechCrunch’s @EquityPod! We broke down: - iRobot, Luminar & Rad Power Bikes bankruptcies - Amazon’s bet on OpenAI - Trump’s approach to AI regulation - Why “slop” is the word of the year - Databricks’ $10B raise instead of IPO - Coursera-Udemy merger
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From Roombas to e-bikes, why are hardware startups going bankrupt?
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Watch as Equity discusses what went wrong for iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes, plus Amazon's massive OpenAI bet and Trump's new approach to AI regulation.
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Coursera and Udemy enter a merger agreement valued at around $2.5B
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Coursera and Udemy, two of the biggest names in online learning, are combining platforms next year.
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Lidar-maker Luminar files for bankruptcy
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The filing marks the end of a tumultuous year full of layoffs, executive departures, and piling debts.
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OpenAI is reportedly trying to raise $100B at an $830B valuation
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The ChatGPT maker is aiming to raise the funding by the end of the first quarter in 2026, and the company may ask sovereign wealth funds to invest in the round.
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Hacks, thefts and disruption: The worst data breaches of 2025
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TechCrunch looks back at the biggest data breaches, disruptive cyberattacks, and damaging hacks of 2025, from the raiding of U.S. government databases to a hack every month in South Korea.
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Can AI actually fix dating? @EquityPod unpacks Hinge CEO Justin McLeod’s decision to step down and launch a new AI dating app, Overtone Listen here: https://t.co/pjrpqokXnr
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Pressure's on for founders to be influencers, too, according to @mashadrokova and this week's @EquityPod
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What do startups need from OpenAI, and what can it provide in return? The latest @EquityPod breaks it down, with a special episode straight from Disrupt.
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Marc Manara, OpenAI’s head of startups, says the reality of AI has advanced far beyond ideas and experiments. AI-native companies are hitting $200 million in annual recurring revenue, and product...
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ICYMI @mashadrokova coming through with some hot takes about VC + PR and some useful tips for founders on their storytelling journey. Spoiler: Be everywhere at once. @EquityPod
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NEW: Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda raises $20M pre-seed for @wabi, the ‘YouTube of apps’ Wabi, which launched in beta last month, is a harbinger of another consumer AI shift: one where personalized software becomes the norm. https://t.co/22vdxMItDg via @techcrunch
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Wabi, a startup from the founder of Replika, has just raised a $20 million pre-seed round. Wabi is like "YouTube for apps" — a social platform where anyone can use prompts to instantly create mini...
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TechCrunch is getting back to our roots with Build Mode, a new podcast to help guide you through the messy, unpredictable journey of building an early-stage startup. No sugarcoating. No hype. Just candid conversations and actionable advice from people who’ve been there before.
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Navan finished its first day trading at an approximate valuation of $4.7 billion, which is about half of its last private valuation of $9.2 billion.
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Navan finished its first day trading at an approximate valuation of $4.7 billion, which is about half of its last private valuation of $9.2 billion.
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Thanks to everyone who made this year's San Francisco event what it was -- and to the 10,000 of you who filled the halls, made the connections, and left with more than you came with. Couldn't make it? These images tell part of the story.
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Thanks to everyone who made this year's San Francisco event what it was -- and to the 10,000 of you who filled the halls, made the connections, and left with more than you came with. Couldn't make...
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NEW: I spoke with Mercor CEO Brendan Foody at TechCrunch Disrupt yesterday. We discussed the new favorite way for AI labs to get data. Foody's $10B startup pays former investment bankers and lawyers to make training data for OpenAI and Meta. He calls it the "future of work."
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is kicking off with a live recording of @EquityPod on the Builders Stage!
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Equity is going live on the Builders Stage for @TechCrunch Disrupt in 5! See you soon 🎤
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🎉 Day 1 of @TechCrunch Disrupt. Can’t wait to see these Startup Battlefield pitches. We’ve got some great builders this year! @sokane1 @kirstenkorosec
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From Anthropic backlash to ChatGPT bending its rules, it feels like it's not cool to be cautious in the AI industry. @EquityPod breaks down VC responses and more in its latest ep: https://t.co/NEMim5qoES
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