The hosts explore Twitter Blue, debating its subscription perks and potential impact. They dive into innovative funding, covering Seasoned and You.com, while analyzing the competitive search landscape against giants like Google. The evolution of search engines and insights into India's booming edtech sector highlight new educational alternatives. Tiger Global's investment tactics are scrutinized, showcasing its rapid strategies and contrasting them with SoftBank's approach. Overall, the episode delivers a thrilling look into startup dynamics and emerging technologies.
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Twitter Blue Potential
Consider Twitter Blue's potential.
It offers small tweaks like icon/theme changes and a tweet-pause feature.
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines! This is our Friday show, a roundup of the week's biggest and most fascinating stories from startups, venture capital and technology.
Natasha and Alex along with Grace and Chris had to cut and cut and cut to get the show to fit this week, so if we didn't get to your favorite story, we wanted to. We just ran out of space!
Here's the rundown:
Twitter Blue: Natasha is not sold, but Alex is all-in on Twitter's new subscription service. What does it include? What do we hope it adds? We have it all for you.
Seasonedraised $18.7 million for its frontline worker app and matching service, You.comraised $20 million to continue taking on Google's search hegemony, and Helsing.airaised a huge pile of money for reasons that we like, even if the details of what it intends to do are still a little vague.
INDIAN EDTECH
Tiger Global's investing rush. Thanks to an act of journalism by our Twitter friend Sar Haribhakti, we had fresh perspective on just how the startup investing community is handling Tiger's race to win growth-stage investing. The Information has more, as does FT and Crunchbase News,
And then we were out of minutes! Don't worry, however, Equity is back Monday morning!
Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products.
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