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What's next for the entrepreneur behind Layoffs.FYI
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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Jan 18, 2023
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Podcast episode
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This week, Natasha interviewed Roger Lee, an entrepreneur who's spent the better part of a decade building tools for employees and employers alike. Lee is the creator of Layoffs.FYI and co-founder of Comprehensive and Human Interest.Here's what we got into:Roger's introduction to entrepreneurship during the dot-com bubbleHow the pandemic de-stigmatized layoffsHow Comprehensive - described as the inverse of Layoffs.FYI - is helping employees level-upThe importance of crowdsourcing and to monetize, or not to monetize...transparencyWe ended, as usual, with a lightning round and learned where Lee's career could have gone if he didn't take the founder path (hint: it's not VC).Equity drops at 10:00 a.m. PT every Monday and at 7:00 a.m. PT on Wednesdays and Fridays, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews founders, one that details how our stories come together, and more!
Released:
Jan 18, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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Equity Monday 8/3: 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 big news, chats 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 last Friday’s episode. by Equity