Hello and welcome to Equity, TipsClear's venture capital podcast, where we unveil the numbers behind the headlines.
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Let's get back to the task, listen, we're tired too. But we didn't let that stop us from packing this week's Equity at the gills with news and notes and jokes and fun. I hope you can laugh with myself and Natasha and Danny and Chris on the dials as we go through it all:
- Journalism, venture capitalists, and not being a colossal asshole: Listen to learn more, but there is once again a hubbub in the tech world twitter and media twitter to find out if journalists should write more positive things about tech companies (no), and if venture capitalists are a little too thin for their net worth (Yes).
- Lemonade IPO went kaboom out of the door, more than doubling in value. But the CEO is not too worried. I spoke to him before the registration and he was more interested in getting a solid, long-term investor base than extracting every possible dollar from their increase. And Lemonade already had a lot of money, so it wasn't a huge concern.
- We also spent a minute on the possible Uber-Postmates deal, that could to be announced early next week. That or Postmates is really serious about going public. We will see.
- Then we had to talk about Mirror, Lululemon and what's going on with home fitness. Is the trend here to stay? Natasha thinks so, and the rest of the crew are also very optimistic. Especially since it is not as if we are going to resume life anytime soon.
- After that, it was time to move on to a few rounds of funding, including the latest neo-fiscal, and a recording on the Lessonbee at the start, which sounds really cool.
- We also started a quick note on Contrary Capital and the startup mafias, the Envision accelerator, Discord's last $ 100 million round, and we closed with the Final Luckin Letdown.
- Phew!
It's our ep. Team kisses and have a good weekend. You are all great and we appreciate you spending part of your day with the four of us.
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