{"id":5142,"date":"2023-02-10T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/10\/wait-a-secondary\/"},"modified":"2023-02-10T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:00:14","slug":"wait-a-secondary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/10\/wait-a-secondary\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait a secondary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hello and welcome back to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/equity\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Equity<\/a>, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.<\/p>\n<p>This week,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/natashathereporter\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natasha Mascarenhas,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bayareawriter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Ann Azevedo<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rebecca_szkutak?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebecca Szkutak<\/a> got on the mic<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our deals of the week included <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/02\/07\/partech-hits-first-close-of-largest-africa-focused-fund-at-e245m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a look at a large new fund<\/a> focused on Africa, a startup raising big bucks to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/02\/06\/shiftmed-nursing-shortage-200-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">address the nursing shortage<\/a> and Rebellyous <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/02\/03\/rebellyous-raising-millions-rethink-chicken-nugget\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raising<\/a> in a crowded and struggling space toward its effort to \u2018rethink the nugget.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>We took a few to chat through the latest around FTX, which is attempting to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/02\/07\/ftxs-attempts-to-claw-back-political-donations-may-target-largest-recipients-experts-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">take back its political donations<\/a> at the same time Robinhood is trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/02\/08\/robinhood-buy-back-sam-bankman-fried\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">buy back<\/a> the 7.6% stake that an SBF entity acquired last year. We also marveled at how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/musks-twitter-has-just-180-000-u-s-subscribers-two-months-after-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">low<\/a> Twitter Blue numbers really are.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0To throw it back for a second, Mary Ann walked us through <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/01\/31\/thrive-capital-believed-to-be-leading-potential-new-investment-in-fintech-stripe-report-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the latest with Stripe<\/a> AND all of our questions around its financial backing at the current moment. Becca reminds us that <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/02\/03\/venture-funding-has-started-flooding-back-in-at-least-one-area-secondaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">secondaries<\/a>, dear friends, may be quiet but are livelier than ever.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0We end with notes on AI and inclusion, based on Dom\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/02\/08\/ai-is-the-next-frontier-but-for-whom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent piece<\/a> looking at the data behind the disparities. Reminder to use code EQUITY for 50% off annual TC+ memberships!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Equity drops at 10:00 a.m. PT every Monday and at 7:00 a.m. PT on Wednesdays and Fridays, so subscribe to us on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Apple Podcasts<\/i><\/a><i>,<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>\u00a0Overcast<\/i><\/a><i>,<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>\u00a0Spotify<\/i><\/a>\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em><i>all the casts. TechCrunch also has a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/chain-reaction\/id1616008890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">great show on crypto<\/a>, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/found\/id1561051074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">show that interviews founders<\/a>, one that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-techcrunch-podcast\/id1624500693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">details how our stories come together<\/a>\u00a0and more!<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/02\/10\/wait-a-secondary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome back to\u00a0Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week,\u00a0Natasha Mascarenhas,\u00a0Mary Ann Azevedo\u00a0and\u00a0Rebecca Szkutak got on the mic Our deals of the week included a look at a large new fund focused on Africa, a startup raising big bucks to address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}