Hey and welcome again to Fairness, a podcast concerning the enterprise of startups, the place we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
Alex, Natasha and Mary Ann loved yet one more version of Fairness Stay this week, hopping on Twitter Areas to talk every part from Musk’s meme swimsuit to a brand new tackle Wordle that landed Spotify’s consideration. Once we stopped recording the episode, information broke that Stripe is reducing its inside valuation by 28%. Fortunately, we do that 3 times every week to remain tuned for our take quickly.
At the moment, right here’s what we acquired to in at this time’s episode:
- Spotify acquired Heardle, which felt like a throwback to trivia and naturally a nod at its well-known predecessor, NY Instances-owned Wordle. Solely one in all us has performed the music guessing sport up to now, so tweet @equitypod your ideas on if it’s truly enjoyable.
- We additionally spoke a few startup that’s making an attempt to deal with male infertility in a personalised, partaking manner. It caught traders consideration, and ours too.
- Our final deal of the week, Continuum, gave us an opportunity to speak about productizing one of many worst jobs in startups: laying of us off. The fractional work play feels much more necessary given the volatility of startups throughout all levels proper now. Hopin, for instance, carried out its second layoff inside 4 months this week and parted methods with its COO, CFO and different executives. Medium had an government shake up, with Ev Williams stepping down.
- The final two themes of the episode had been constructed round Instacart and the way forward for grocery supply, in addition to the newest of the Twitter and Elon Musk saga.
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