Natasha Mascarenhas
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Outschool laid off a quarter of staff, or 43 people, earlier this week, according to an e-mail obtained by...
When Ankur Nagpal sold Teachable for a quarter of a billion dollars, he felt lucky. Then, he quickly felt lost when trying to navigate the financial systems of a country he wasn’t born in and learn the institutional language often only spoken fluently by the historically wealthy.
It would...
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.
To end the year, let’s continue to return to columns that I wrote that have aged, well, interestingly. In...
What a decade this year has been. While prediction pieces always come with a large asterisk because no one knows literally anything about what may play out in the future — such as massive shocks to large startup sectors — our perspectives about 2022 have aged … interestingly.
Last...
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People leave jobs for all kinds of reasons, but when it’s a CFO departing a richly valued company as the company itself conducts layoffs, the exodus...
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I think it took maybe three days after I roasted our rather dry M&A season for the news cycle to prove me wrong. This week we...
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A multibillion dollar acquisition, IPO projections and some good ol’ VC and billionaire drama?
It would be unfair to say that this week in tech and startups felt...
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Before we get into this week’s show notes, some programming notes:
OK, now to the show. This week, Natasha, Mary Ann and Rebecca took the mic, with...
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When On Deck had to cut its staff twice within a matter of months, its co-founders Erik Torenberg and David Booth published a memo promising to...
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I first covered Launch House in Oct 2020, when the co-founders described a strong focus on inclusion when creating hacker homes. A co-founder said then, “I...
