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Equity

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.

Website ↗ Last published 30 October 2026 804 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Equity

“I think people are trying to over-optimize out of just having conversations with people. I've already seen that happen in my generation. If I'm ordering takeout, it feels weird to call a place. … There's just going to be more of these things where basic human interaction gets more and more optimized out of actually occurring. And call me old school, but I think that humans being able to talk to each other is probably a net positive for society.” — Amanda Silberling, Equity
Amanda Silberling · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I'm a fan of language and words and word choice, and there are two things in this document that I found really interesting. In the risk factor describing how being designated a supply chain risk by the DOD can be material to the business, Anthropic's lawyers decide to call it the Department of War, which is the chosen name of the Pentagon at the moment. In contrast, in the definitions section of the S1, they do define SI, but it is not superintelligence. It is systems integrators.” — Sean O'Kane, Equity
Sean O'Kane · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I didn't think that we could have found it without AI. So the opportunity for a team of 10 of the most talented people that I know… if we had taken all of them and told them, hey, maybe find some PHP RCE bugs, maybe it would have taken them a couple of months of work, maybe even 12 months of work… why wouldn't you try 20 different ideas on various different targets and just run them on top of Atlas… and maybe do it over the weekend?… Right now we can, you know, 100x, 1000x the work of a researcher.” — Tomer Schwartz, Equity
Tomer Schwartz · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“One of the bigger insights that we had over time, especially after having built Replika, is that most people actually don't care that much about saving time. ... Look at the most popular apps, obviously, TikTok and Instagram. They're not there to save anyone's time.” — Eugenia Kuyda, Equity
Eugenia Kuyda · 21 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Equity is hosted by Alex Wilhelm , Mary Ann Azevedo , Kirsten Korosec , Natasha Mascarenhas , Rebecca Bellan , Anthony Ha , Danny Crichton , Sean O'Kane , Max Zeff , Rebecca Szkutak , Becca Szkutak and Devin Coldewey .

Recent Episodes

  1. 30 Oct 2026

    Anthropic’s S-1 is here. Does AI pay off?

  2. 28 Oct 2026

    The 'Vulnpocalypse' is coming for the internet’s aging code, says Wiz’s CTO

    With Tomer Schwartz

  3. 23 Oct 2026

    The PHP Armageddon reminds us that the internet is held together by glue and dreams

  4. 21 Oct 2026

    Meta and Instinct are racing to build your AI assistant. Wabi has a different idea.

    With Eugenia Kuyda

  5. 16 Oct 2026

    Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it

    With Amulya Vishwanath

  6. 14 Oct 2026

    Who’s the sheriff in AI’s wild west? (Equity Live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026)

  7. 9 Oct 2026

    Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card

  8. 7 Oct 2026

    After selling to P&G and Lululemon, these founders are building for life beyond the screen

    With Bryn Putnam and Tristan Walker

  9. 2 Oct 2026

    Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it

  10. 30 Sep 2026

    A Neko Health investor on the $700M bet to scan your whole body

    With Farooq Abbasi

  11. 25 Sep 2026

    Meta’s Muse just stole the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic

  12. 23 Sep 2026

    What’s next for cybersecurity, according to Index Ventures’ Shardul Shah

    With Shardul Shah

Guests

Gené Teare (4 episodes), Anu Hariharan (3 episodes), Ross Fubini (3 episodes), Lucas Matney (3 episodes), Roger Lee (3 episodes), Hans Tung (2 episodes), Dan Krasnostein (2 episodes), Jenny Fielding (2 episodes), Leslie Feinzaig (2 episodes), Taylor Hatmaker (2 episodes), Mark Goldberg (2 episodes), Matthew Lynley (2 episodes), and 268 more.