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Don’t use Sam Altman and AI hype in the same sentence

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Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Busy few weeks, yeah? Don’t use Sam Altman and AI hype in the same sentence by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch Just kidding. More on the trend here.)

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Report: Substack, the highly hyped newsletter platform, has ditched plans for a Series C

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Substack originally launched as a way to turn newsletters into a paid subscription business, inviting anyone with an interest to hop on the platform and start writing for however much they want to charge their readers. It had earlier raised a $15.3 million Series A round led by a16z in 2019.

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The impact of hype with Clubhouse’s Paul Davison

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Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. She sat down with Clubhouse co-founder and CEO Paul Davison to talk about the core of Clubhouse, competition and the impact of hype. If you love the conversation, share it with a friend.

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It’s a fintech world, and we’re just living in it

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Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. It was a live recording this week, which was good fun. And we closed with a look at Forge’s neat SPAC launch and what its positive debut could mean for unicorns more generally.

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The oh-so-biased branding risk in venture capital

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VC confab brings surprises and AI All your favorite venture journalists were busy this week at Upfront Summit 2023, a two-day, invite-only event that brings together industry insiders — and celebrities — to talk about the future of capital. It’s not surprising: Hyped-up technologies often get outsized interest.

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Thanks to Amazon, One Medical and Whole Foods are on the same dang shelf

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Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. ForSight is building eye-surgery robots , just raised a stack itself, and we are hype about it. So we had to touch on the huge Amazon-One Medical deal to get started.

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Equity Monday: The end of cheap money, and Take-Two buys Zynga

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Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. All that and we are just getting ready for earnings season, so stay hype as there is a lot of data coming in short order. This is our Monday show, our short ramp into the week.

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