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Equity Monday: Unionization at Alphabet, Tesla's delivery achievement, and CRED raises $81M
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Equity Monday: Unionization at Alphabet, Tesla's delivery achievement, and CRED raises $81M
FromEquity
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9 minutes
Released:
Jan 4, 2021
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here — and don’t forget to check out the second of our two holiday eps, the most recent looking at what we think might happen this year.What did we get into today? A great question. Here's the rundown:Tesla reported pretty strong deliveries, as did smaller electric vehicle companies. What the strong figures could mean for startups, however, remains to be seen.Bitcoin had a pretty good end to the year, which could bolster Coinbase's impending IPO.Hundreds of workers at Alphabet want to unionize.Didi could go public this year, which means we could see a third ride-hailing company provide us access to its numbers. Please!CRED raised $81 million in a huge Series C. Our reporting indicates that the company is now worth more than $800 million.Disco, a legaltech startup, has raised $40 million in debt to cap off a $100 million round.And here's the Seed link, as promised.Mostly we're still making sure that our brains still work and that the return of work really is here. Taking a break was nice. Now the news is coming back, so we are as well. Hugs, and chat Thursday.
Released:
Jan 4, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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No parties allowed at the Airbnb IPO: Here’s what Natasha and Danny and Alex got into this week: The public markets are afire these days with Apple reaching $2 trillion in market cap, and Tesla’s stock doing all sorts of odd things. In short, stocks have only gone up for a while and that means that there’s warm, nigh-stuffy temperatures around assets of all types. This is leading to a surge in liquidity, unsurprisingly, as asset managers of all types look to take advantage of the times. So, Asana is prepping a direct listing, Airbnb has filed privately, And ThredUp is eyeing an early-2021 IPO. Around the same time as Coinbase, we’d reckon. Airbnb banned parties as well, which wound up being the title of the show. And SPACs are still happening in rapid-fire fashion. The Equity crew is not super impressed about the whole affair, but I’ll say that with Paul “Fucking” Ryan involved, it’s probably a sign of the top. And capping the liquidity chat, Natasha ran us through by Equity