Equity podcast

CrowdStrike’s fallout, Harris’s stance on tech and Yandex’s rise from the ashes

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On today’s episode of Equity, Rebecca Bellan did a deep dive into the CrowdStrike outage that affected around 8.5 million Windows devices around the world, causing disruptions in air travel, banking, hospitals, media outlets, federal agencies and businesses of all kinds. The outage began when CrowdStrike, a cloud security giant, sent out a defective software […]

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Silicon Valley’s impact on the election and an acquisition making our HeadSpin

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Welcome back to another recap of Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast about the business of startups. This episode is packed with deals, antitrust musings, AI and more.  To kick things off, Kirsten walked us through Elon Musk’s recent declaration of his intent to move both SpaceX and X’s headquarters out of California to Texas. Whether or

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If the music stops, what startup gets a chair? Renegade Partners’ co-founders are finding out

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Renegade Partners co-founders Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek have seen it all in their careers — notably over the past four years when they launched their first fund as the COVID pandemic took hold and navigated the economic roller coaster that followed.  Now, with a second $128 million fund — and a plan to write

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Google’s talks to buy Wiz, and the gap between AI spending and AI revenue

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On today’s episode of Equity, Rebecca Bellan explored Google’s reported talks to acquire Wiz, a cloud security company, for around $23 billion. Wiz provides an “all-in-one approach to cloud security,” pulling data from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and others, then scanning it all for security risk factors — something that Google might

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Floodgate’s Mike Maples explains how startups that most people ‘don’t like’ are the best ones to back

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Mike Maples Jr. is a prolific angel investor and co-founder of early-stage venture firm Floodgate. Over the years, he’s taken a lot of bets. Some have paid off handsomely (Twitter, Twitch, Lyft and Bazaarvoice, for example). Others have not. I interviewed him for a recent episode of Equity Podcast, and we dug into a number

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AI-powered drug development, VW teams up with Rivian, and DEI is ‘bad’

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Welcome back to another recap of Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast about the business of startups. This episode is jam-packed with deals, hot topics, and the latest dramaaaaaa in the tech world. If you haven’t listened yet, consider this your spoiler-filled invitation to dive in. Three Deals of the Week Formation Bio’s $372M Raise First up,

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The EU’s DMA is coming for Apple, and X bots are on the loose

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Apple has been named the first of tech’s so-called “gatekeepers” to be charged for violating the EU’s Digital Markets Act. In a press release this morning, the European Commission alleged that Apple’s App Store rules, “prevent app developers from freely steering consumers to alternative channels for offers and content,” blocking developers from providing customers with

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