Crypto winters, bots and when will India decide on crypto

by Arthur · July 22, 2022

TechCrunch is more than just a website with words. We are also building a growing stable of podcasts focusing on the most critical topics related to the start-up and venture capital world. To help you find the right show for your interests, we’ve rounded up our audio output from the week.

Embedded below is the latest from Chain Reaction, our awesome crypto-focused podcast hosted by Lucas and Anita. You’ll also find Found, a long-term work that delves deep into the real saga of company formation, from Jordan and Darrell. It’s an audio version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt which features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. Finally, there’s Equity, TechCrunch’s long-running, Webby Award-winning podcast focused on venture capital and the latest startup news, hosted by Natasha, Mary Ann and Alex.

And if you’re more into the written over the spoken word, we have newsletters on the above topics as well.

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The TechCrunch Podcast

Episode 10: Tesla’s solar roof has remained largely in the dark and other TC news

This week on the TechCrunch Podcast, TC climate writer Harri Weber joins us to talk about Tesla’s underperforming solar rooftop business, and new TC reporter Kyle Wiggins takes a deep dive into Butler Hospitality’s recent layoffs and how they’re a cautionary tale for other food and hospitality tech companies businesses. And of course, Darrell gives you an overview of the biggest stories in tech this week

Articles from the episode:

Other news from the week:

Chain reaction

Episode 15: Crypto Winter, DAO Death, and the Future of Community Investing (with Alexander Taub)

Welcome back, this week Lucas and Anita dive into a conversation surrounding OpenSea’s significant layoffs, how Binance is taking on Coinbase in a stateside battle royale, and why Bored Apes creators are trying to outdo Meta with their own metaverse.

In their interview this week, Lucas and Anita chat with Alexander Taub. Taub is the founder of DAO tool startup Upstream which allows people to spin up their own decentralized governance organizations. DAOs were the place to be this year, but how many of them will last through a crypto winter?

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Helpful links:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/14/nft-marketplace-opensea-lays-off-20-percent-of-its-staff-we-have-entered-crypto-winter/

As Coinbase falters, Binance.US is waiting in the wings

Bored Apes founders on their plans for Otherside metaverse

ConstitutionDAO’s bold crypto bid for US Constitution falls short

TechCrunch Live Podcast

Episode 11: Building Roboticists with Ayanna Howard and Ayah Bdeir

TechCrunch Live records weekly, live, every Wednesday at 3:00 PM EDT / 12:00 PM PDT.

There has never been a more exciting time to work with robotics. The pandemic changed the face of the industry from research to the real world. Today we are joined by two experts who will also serve as pitch judges at our upcoming robotics event. Ayanna Howard is dean of the Ohio State University College of Engineering. She has worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and founded the Georgia Tech spinoff, Zyrobotics. Ayah Bdeir is the founder of the STEM education kit LittleBits and is a Venture Partner in the early stage investment company, E14 Fund.

Found

Episode 67: Carolyn Childers, Boss

In this episode of Found Live, Chief co-founder and CEO Carolyn Childers joins us to talk about leading a company focused on great leadership. After a transformative experience with another female business executive who is now her co-founder, Carolyn wanted to create a product that would connect women at the VP and c-suite levels with the kind of excellent mentorship she experienced while providing virtual and in-person space to develop the community.

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Equity

Episode 545: Thanks to Amazon, One Medical and Whole Foods are on the same shelf

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuances behind the headlines.

Alex, Natasha and Mary Ann joined Grace again this week for our weekly roundup show, and as often happens, the news broke while we were preparing to record. So we had to touch on the huge Amazon-One Medical deal to get started. Naturally, we all had thoughts.

What else did we get into? Following:

Crunchbase Raised $50 Million! Yes, our former employer has raised another big round that made us all think about our health, our history and our love for the news team and other parts of the company we remember fondly.
Just what is Arkive-builder, and are we for the work of building some kind of NFT-powered, decentralized IRL library. There is also a DAO involved.
ForSight builds eye surgery robots, just raised a stack itself, and we’re hyped about it. It reinforces an important learning from Natasha’s recent robotics panel, which was part bullish, part bearish.
From there it was time to talk about the amount of new venture funds coming out, the end of Modsy – or is it? — and some stories touching on the situation in Ukraine, including a huge Russian fine from Google, Preply’s latest funding round, and how solar power can fight fascism.

The equity falls every Monday at 7 a.m. PDT and Wednesday and Friday at 6 a.m. PDT, so subscribe to us at Apple Podcasts, Cloudy, Spotify and all the cast members.

Episode 544: OK, Fear Not: The Long Shots Still Get Venture Funding

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuances behind the headlines.

This is our Wednesday show, where we zero in on a single topic, think about a question, and unpack the rest. This week, Natasha and Alex asked: How do the founders keep two ideas in their heads: both that there is an economic downturn, but also that many industries are looking up?

After a series of episodes about the tensions within the downturn, this is a “good news, notwithstanding” episode.

We had a great time and hope you enjoy this show. We’re back on Friday with our regular news roundup!

The equity falls every Monday at 7 a.m. PDT and Wednesday and Friday at 6 a.m. PDT, so subscribe to us at Apple Podcasts,Cloudy, Spotify oneand all the cast members.

Episode 543: When Will India Decide on Crypto?

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuances behind the headlines.

Alex and Grace is back to cover the biggest and most interesting tech, startup and market news. Today was a fun day in that we didn’t start with just bad news – what a change!

Stocks are up around the world and cryptos have rallied in the past week. However, the positive price movement in cryptoland doesn’t seem to be lighting a fire under the NFT market, for example.
Robots! Yes, our robot themed event – free! And online! — is this week, which means I have robots on the brain. It made the Syrius round all the more interesting. It appears that e-commerce will remain a key driver of robotics innovation for some time to come.
Podcast deals are still happening, sort of. Acast is buying Podchaser, which may or may not mean a lot to you. What matters in this deal is that Spotify was not involved. It’s a change!
Quick hits: India may ban crypto, at least if its top bankers get their way, Missfresh’s implosion has a tiny lifeline, and Modsy is no more — and the way it’s panning out leaves a lot to be desired.

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