Hi and welcome again to Fairness, a podcast concerning the industry of startups, the place we unpack the numbers and nuance at the back of the headlines.
This week, Natasha was once joined via Mary Ann Azevedo and Rebecca Szkutak to discuss the newest and largest in tech. Earlier than we get into what we were given as much as, are we able to simply say how nice it’s to be again? It feels healing to be again at the mic to digest the scoop on the subject of tendencies and startup happenings; and we are hoping you’re feeling proper about the similar.
With out additional ado, our display touched on so much this week:
- Offers of the week come with Influx, which has advanced a self-help app designed to assist folks organize their ADHD, Cartograph Ventures, a brand new undertaking fund run via an ex-Juul operator, and the newest lawsuit and layoffs taking place over at Carta
- The plethora of fintech M&A that happened this week, together with Constancy’s acquisition of a startup known as Shoobx (we couldn’t pronounce its title both) and Deel’s buyout of Capbase.
- Microsoft’s handle ChatGPT OpenAI which, we’ll admit, has a construction that stumps even us. Plus, we discuss how Pittsburgh’s experience in AI would possibly assist give its startup scene a spice up.
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There’s Sam Altman, after which there’s Sam Bankman-Fried, which brings us to our final theme. We discuss SBF’s new Substack, the Kardashian means of distraction and why the prison international isn’t partial to levity. As Becca mentioned so aptly, possibly billionaires (or former billionaires) must prevent looking to be lovely.
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