Podcast Episodes

Elon dips from DOGE, and Silicon Valley enters the 'find out' stage

Elon Musk has officially announced he’s stepping down as a U.S. special government employee and the de facto head of the Department of Government Eff…

10 months ago

What founders need to know about tech’s growing influence in D.C.

Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan caught up with  Daniel Weiner, director of the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program…

10 months ago

OpenAI goes all in with Jony Ive as Google plays AI catchup

OpenAI just made its biggest acquisition yet, scooping up Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s secretive device startup, io, in a $6.5 billion all-equity deal. …

10 months, 1 week ago

Serve is betting that food delivery and access to public markets are the keys to scaling robotics

Today on Equity, Rebecca Bellan caught up with Ali Kashani, co-founder and CEO of Serve Robotics, to unpack how Serve is navigating public markets, s…

10 months, 1 week ago

$1 Billion a lot of money these days?

Databricks just snatched up another AI company.

This week, data analytics giant announced a $1 billion acquisition of Neon, a startup building an ope…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Unpacking Rippling vs Deel: corporate espionage and a $16B plot twist

Despite courtroom chaos, Rippling is still going full steam ahead. The HR tech startup at the center of an increasingly dramatic legal battle with ri…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Meta's speeding up the "Mad Men to Math Men" pipeline

At Stripe’s Sessions conference this week, Mark Zuckerberg pitched what he calls the “ultimate business machine”: a fully automated, end-to-end AI ad…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

StrictlyVC Download: Why Eric Slesinger, a former CIA officer, is now funding European defense tech

Today, we're bringing you an episode of our sister podcast, StrictlyVC Download.

StrictlyVC's Alex Gove caught up with Eric Slesinger from 201 Ventu…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Damn, the Cluely ragebait got us

What if cheating was just…the future of work? That’s the pitch behind Cluely, the viral AI startup that claims its stealthy browser overlay is “undet…

11 months ago

The rise of retail investors in secondaries, and why delayed IPOs will become the norm

Retail investors are increasingly shaping the secondary market. In Q4 2024, platforms like EquityZen reported that 86% of total transaction volume ca…

11 months ago