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Startup news with the business logic intact.
Equity is TechCrunch’s business-of-startups show, built around sharp questions, market context, and founder or investor interviews. Recent episodes move from AI agents and data infrastructure to SpaceX liquidity, wearables, autonomous drones, and private wealth entering startup deals.
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Equity is a startup business show with its attention fixed on the gap between a big tech claim and the machinery needed to make it work. The pace is brisk. Recent episodes move through AI agents, data platforms, world models, private-market liquidity, autonomous systems, wearables, space infrastructure, and the shifting behavior of startup investors. The interviews tend to start with a clear market question, then press into product reality. How does an agent actually get adopted inside a company? Why do pilots fail? What does a customer need to understand before trusting a tool with complex data? Those questions give the show its useful tension. Snowflake’s AI transition is framed less as a slogan than as a test of whether employees and customers can query agentic products reliably. Luma AI’s ambitions around world models and unified intelligence are handled through the practical problem of context, control, generation, and robotics. The venture side is just as concrete. Episodes on Arena Private Wealth, Andreessen Horowitz infrastructure funding, and SpaceX secondaries look at who is writing checks, why companies are staying private longer, and how capital finds its way around the traditional VC path. The Friday roundtables are looser and more conversational. They can jump from OpenAI hardware rumors to Davos, from Anduril’s autonomous drone race to Uber’s self-driving bets, from Disney robotics to Whoop’s subscription model. The banter is light, but the business thread usually stays visible. Equity is not a hype show. It gives founders and executives room to explain their theses, then keeps pulling the conversation back to adoption, incentives, markets, and what breaks in practice. That makes it useful for listeners who follow startups closely but still want the details translated into plain consequences. It is especially strong on AI as a business force rather than a vague cultural mood. The result is a current, commercially literate guide to the startup economy as it keeps reorganizing around AI, infrastructure, and private capital.
Made for: Equity is for founders, operators, investors, and tech-news followers who want more than headlines. It suits listeners who care how AI products, capital markets, and startup strategy behave once they leave the announcement stage.
What sets it apart: The show pairs TechCrunch reporting instincts with direct access to founders, executives, investors, and market specialists. It is strongest when it turns buzzwords like agents, world models, and secondaries into questions about adoption, incentives, and production risk.
The intersection of technology, startups, and venture capital touches everything now. That’s why Equity, TechCrunch's flagship podcast, digs into the business of startups for entrepreneurs and enthusiasts alike. Every Wednesday and Friday, TechCrunch reporters keep you up-to-date on the world of business, technology, and venture capital. Equity is ranked the No.2 podcast in the Top 100 Venture Capital All time leaderboard on Goodpods—As well as No.17 for the Top 100 Finance All time chart and No.32 for the Top 100 Business News All time chart.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Equity turns startup and AI news into clear questions about customers, business models, execution, and the incentives behind technical ambition.
Equity follows startup business through the decisions underneath the headlines. Reporter-led roundtables assess companies, products, and revenue models, while interviews give founders and executives room to explain how they test demand, win customers, and move new technology…
Founders pitch the future; Equity helps you find what ships, fails, and gets funded.
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A sharp AI product debate about what comes after LLMs and what it takes to ship it.
This Equity episode treats the AI race less like a grand theory fight and more like a product problem: what comes after LLMs, who would buy it, and how a system holds up once it has to ship.
A clear look at Snowflake's push toward agentic products and the production limits that come with it.
Snowflake's move from data warehouse roots toward agentic products is the main thread, and the case made here is that owning the data is no longer the whole story.
A brisk startup briefing that follows the money behind the spectacle.
Equity ties Olaf, Disney, NVIDIA's robot snowman, the Disneyland Paris viral moment, Whoop's subscription business, and Starlink revenue into a clear business conversation.
A sharp look at why Gen Z may want social that feels less performative and more communal.
Fizz is betting that Gen Z is done performing life on Instagram and TikTok, and Teddy Solomon makes the case for a product built around community.
A grounded look at turning startup ideas into proof.
Build Mode starts in the part of startup work that often gets skipped: figuring out whether a problem is real before months of effort go into building around it.
Hard tech leadership, without the mythology.
Drinks culture, argued from the inside.
Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.
Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
World models get a practical stress test here.
Snowflake wants to be more than storage.
The crew starts with Olaf.
This episode explores the trend of family offices and private wealth firms bypassing venture capital to invest directly in AI startups, featuring insights from Arena Private Wealth executives.
This episode features an interview with Jennifer Lee, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discussing the firm's $1.7 billion fund and its focus on investing in AI infrastructure across various technology layers.
The episode discusses Uber's investments in self-driving technology and explores Anduril's drone racing competition as a recruitment tool for autonomous software engineers.
Discussion about SpaceX's potential IPO and the state of the IPO market for private companies.
The hosts discuss OpenAI's rumored AI earbuds and debate the appeal of ambient computing devices.
An interview with VCs about building go-to-market strategies for their own firms and raising a first fund.
TechCrunch's Equity podcast discusses the latest news on robotaxi regulation in New York, including Waymo's testing and state-level proposals.
An interview with cybersecurity experts about building guardrails for generative AI models to protect enterprise data and prevent harmful outputs.
TechCrunch's Equity podcast discusses the latest in startup and venture capital news, including Discord's potential IPO and CES updates.
Equity explores consumer AI trends for 2026 with a venture capitalist, discussing wearables, stable coins, and the shift from enterprise to consumer AI.
This episode explores Mercore, a startup that connects AI labs with high-skilled contractors to create training data, and discusses the ethical and business implications of this data gold rush.
Teddy Solomon says Fizz was built because Instagram and TikTok turned into entertainment platforms, with only 7% of content coming from friends and the rest coming from elsewhere.
The episode covers startup news, including the launch of a new podcast for early-stage founders and a mobility company winning Startup Battlefield.
Equity hosts a deep dive with venture capitalist Jiten Biel on trends in EVs, manufacturing, and automation, including the ALSO micromobility deal.
Hosts discuss a news story about a woman giving birth in a Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco, reflecting on the intersection of new technology and everyday life.
An interview with Eleven Labs CEO about the commoditization of voice models and the company's strategy in the AI voice space.
The hosts discuss James Cameron's views on generative AI versus performance capture, and the broader implications for Hollywood and technology.
Interview with Masha Bucher, founder of Day One Ventures, discussing her journey from PR to VC and her firm's hands-on support model.
An interview with Supabase CEO Paul Cobblestone about the company's journey and its role in the VibeCoding revolution.
An interview exploring the Nordic startup ecosystem, focusing on its social safety net and deep tech future, with a founder of an AI-powered consumer intelligence platform.
The hosts discuss the controversy around using M-dashes in writing as a tell for AI-generated text, and Sam Altman's announcement that ChatGPT can now be configured to avoid overusing them.
A live interview from TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 about how early-stage investing is changing in the age of AI.
Build Mode starts by asking what founders actually do before the product is real.
The Equity podcast discusses a new show's disclaimer about no AI use, exploring its implications for the tech and entertainment industries.
A live interview from TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 exploring how AI-native companies are evolving beyond the GPT wrapper label and how product development cycles are shrinking.
The Equity podcast discusses SoftBank's return, the AI hype cycle, and the tech implications of New York City's mayoral election, including Lina Khan's role in the transition team.
This episode features an interview with Evan Rogers, CEO of True Anomaly, discussing his transition from Air Force officer to founding a space defense startup focused on developing weapons and spacecraft for U.S.
The hosts discuss AI's current investment trends, including large seed rounds and data center builds, while sharing personal experiences with Waymo's autonomous vehicles ahead of an interview with Waymo's co-CEO.