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Equity Monday: A global selloff to kick off Disrupt week

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Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. On the news front, the global stock market is taking a whacking. Pour some extra coffee, and get hype. Come hang out with us. It’s going to be on heck of a show.

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

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and global economies. Still, if Substack’s broader fortunes should change, it would be the second, highly hyped consumer company in a16z’s portfolio to have truly captured the public’s imagination, then lost momentum.

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Stop sensationalizing the ‘collapse’ of VC: Look at the data

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and globally, VC activity in 2022 is well on track to exceed a long-term trend that started in 2006 for total amount invested. Instead of a collapse, the data suggests a healthy “reversion to the mean” following an astonishing and historic hype cycle in 2021. In the U.S. More volatility.

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Builders and VCs explore the impact of air mobility on urban planning at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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During his career, he has been recognized as an innovative executive with a reputation for transforming startups into global businesses. Prior to Wisk, Gysin served as the president and CEO of Liquid Robotics, an autonomous ocean robotics company that changed the way the world accesses, collects and monitors ocean data.

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Opting for a debt round can take you from Series A startup to Series B unicorn

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Mario Ciabarra, founder and CEO of Quantum Metric , is a computer scientist and tech entrepreneur helping organizations align the entire product lifecycle for many major global brands with a single version of customer-defined and quantified truth. As you know from the headline of this piece, though, we chose debt, and it paid off.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Advice for laid-off techies, fintech flops, how to build a growth team

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” A decade of fintech failures: 4 innovations that didn’t live up to the hype A Black YC alum explains how he raised $107M Image Credits: Andrew T. People see the headline, ‘$107 million raised.’

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The Verge Awards at CES 2021: can’t touch this

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But even without a global pandemic, CES was always going to change. The headliner, the Ryzen 9 5980HX, has eight cores, 16 threads, and high hopes. The ROG Zephyrus G15 wasn’t Asus’s headline CES announcement; the company didn’t spend much time talking about it at all. Honorable Mentions: Most Hype: Mercedes-Benz Hyperscreen.

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