This week in TechCrunch podcasts: Chain Reaction, Found, Equity, and The TechCrunch Live Podcast

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The latest from Chain Reaction is below. Found is a long-form piece of work that goes deep on the real saga of company formation from Jordan and Darrell. There is an audio-only version of TechCrunch Live hosted by Matt that features founders and investors discussing successful pitch decks. The Equity show is a webby award winning show that focuses on venture capital and the latest startup news.

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Chain Reaction

Moonbirds founder talks about the crash and where NFTs go.

In this week's show, Lucas and Anita talk about turmoil and heartbreak in the cript market, as a number of popular token get crushed, and public stock prices tank. What happened to this bloodbath? The implosion of Terra's Luna token was a major catalyst.

In their interview with Kevin Rose, Lucas andAnita talk about their lives. Kevin co-founded the Proof Collective and is currently an investor at True Venture. His startup recently raised $10 million from Seven Seven Six and launched its NFT project Moonbirds, which has quickly become one of the most popular NFT efforts out there. The challenges for NFTs will be discussed as we discuss the crash and its aftermath.

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The TechCrunch Live podcast

Raising monster rounds for self-driving mobility companies.

Waabi was founded by Urtasun, who spent three years as the R&D head of the Advanced Technology Group. Waabi wants to develop an approach to speed up the deployment of self-drive vehicles. Her company raised a Series A with a leading round. Both will speak to Urtasun's unique perspective, and what allowed the company to raise the massive Series A.

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Found

Sassie Duggleby is in episode 56.

Sassie Duggleby is leading the team at Venus Aerospace to develop a spaceplane that could go from LA to Tokyo in an hour. Sassie sets the tone that her team doesn't have to adhere to the typical startup-up grind to solve some serious deeptech issues. She talks with Darrell and Jordan about honoring the company's name,Venus, the goddess of love, and loving her customers and her employees well, all while working to bring the world closer together with greener, more efficient travel.

Equity

The dominoes are falling.

In Equity, we unpack the numbers behind the headlines and discuss the business of startups. Every Monday, Grace and Alex look at the news and record notes on what's happening.

We didn't start the day talking about Musk and the news was not very good.

• Stocks are down sharply around the world. And crypto prices, which track larger asset prices, are also sharply lower in the last day, and week.
• Uber’s CEO told his company that things are changing. Adjusted EBITDA is out, FCF is in. Hiring? Going to slow. Capital expenses? Those will get harder looks, and so on. During the show, we asked about the slowdown, and how it may, or may not impact the bouyant crypto startup market.
• Neat funding rounds from Pyramid, which raised $120 million, and Paymob, which raised $50 million.

Tech layoffs don't happen to companies, they happen to people.

We focus on a single topic, think about a question, and unpack the rest of the show. What does the most recent wave of layoffs mean for tech workers?

The question comes after the recent column byNatasha.

The goal of the episode was to show the tech layoffs we have seen in the startup community. A pivot hurts the employees that built your product up.

How close are we to understanding what is happening?

We recorded live this week and took questions from the audience. If you want to watch that version of the show, we have a archive on the internet.

We have you covered if you're more into audio. We were able to cover the shindig due to the fact that Alex, Grace, and Alex were together.

• The end of iPod, a time to reflect on technology trends.
• The exit of a Modern Fertility co-founder, and the MARA round bringing more money to Africa’s fintech scene.
• From there it was onto the Terra crash, Coinbase’s earnings, and the general sentiment shift in the crypto scene.
• Next up was Tiger and the downturn in startup valuations.
• And we closed on some personal notes.

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