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Memes, money and madness: 2021 in tech

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. The rise of memes and money: Remember the Gamestop/stonk saga ? So too was the Robinhood IPO , the Coinbase direct listing , and a host of other related stories.

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Shrinking unicorns and the embarrassment of meme coins

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. Today, we are talking about meme coins, unicorns and the latest from India!

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!” All that said, as social media managers, we need to read in order have moments when we are completely immersed in a story using our brains to process words, sentences, story structure, and plot lines – not just soundbites, headlines, tweets, and pins.

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Robinhood stops the games

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. The story is fast-moving and news continues to break (twice during our recording, in fact) about how trading apps such as Robinhood are responding to the tear.

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Loot is a viral social network that looks like nothing you’ve ever seen

The Verge

This is a rare tech story where basically every fact of it has surprised me on some level. When I wrote in March about non-fungible tokens , or NFTs, I tried to dazzle you by rattling off some of the more impressive sales numbers from the time: $600,000 for the Nyan Cat meme, $5.8 That brings us to Dom Hofmann.

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Bitcoin spot ETFs heat up, SBF’s bail revoked and web3 gaming adoption grows in Asia

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. The digital asset space is still trucking along, while there were some big headlines, the week was arguably a little less chaotic (for now). Welcome back to Chain Reaction. PT, subscribe here.

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Equity Monday: Rich tech folks chat rich tech things on rich tech app funded by rich tech investors

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Here’s what we talked about: American stocks are set to rise, bitcoin is flat and meme-stocks are mixed. Ben raised $2.5 Phocas Software raised $34 million.

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