Hello and welcome again to Equity, TechCrunch’s enterprise capital-focused podcast, the place we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace had been all right here to chat by the week’s largest tech happenings. News was proper again up to a uninteresting roar this week, so we did our greatest to trim and hone and simply carry you the most essential issues.
Here’s the rundown:
- David Dobrik stepped down from Dispo, the photo-sharing app he co-created, this previous week after allegations got here out about him. We talked about the enterprise capital angle, since early-stage traders in the app reactively distanced from their investments. Could this set precedent or have a chilling effect on celebrity startups?
- Robinhood filed privately to go public! So, it’s occurring, everybody. At lengthy final, considered one of Silicon Valley’s hottest firms is kicking off its IPO course of. We’re hype, you’re hype and we had some jokes.
- And in different mega-unicorn information, it seems that Microsoft is tempted to plonk down $10 billion for Discord. Why, you ask? Well why not. It’s simply $10 billion from Microsoft’s $1,780 billion valuation. Or round half a p.c.
Let’s all get some relaxation!
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