Equity Live: Bret Taylor’s $4.5 billion startup and Waymo’s $5.6 billion round

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4.2 • 365 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Equity crew was live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024! Hosts Kirsten Korosec, Devin Coldewey and Margaux MacColl took over the Builders Stage to kick off day 2 of Disrupt with no shortage of conference highlights, startups deals and venture news to chew through. Listen to the full episode to hear about: Devin’s plans to go to space thanks to his chat with Rocket Lab Founder Peter Beck. What Sierra, the AI startup co-founded by Bret Taylor, plans to do with its fresh $175 million funds. Waymo’s who’s who of Silicon Valley round, and why Kirsten’s routing for the robotaxis over the competition. How General Catalyst is breaking down its latest fund and setting its sights on European startups. Equity will be back with a special interview episode on Friday, so stay tuned!

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0:00.0	Hey. Hi. Hi.
0:04.0	Hi. Hey.
0:13.0	Hi.
0:14.0	Hi.
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to the Equity Podcast live, which is always exciting.
0:20.0	I did this last year.
0:21.0	Last year I wore like a full
0:23.0	sequin jacket but I didn't want to outshine you Devon so I was going to
0:27.9	wear once a day as revenge but no it's probably better this way. I decided
0:31.8	Tweed was more suitable for like, you know,
0:34.2	your vibe.
0:34.9	I have some tweet.
0:35.9	Sure.
0:36.8	A little bit.
0:37.8	Yeah.
0:38.0	It's textured.
0:38.8	It's textured.
0:39.8	Well, enough fashion talk.
0:41.5	Thank you for coming this morning
0:43.6	and we're gonna talk about a lot of stuff,
0:45.2	but one of the things I want to touch on a little bit
0:47.9	is a little bit of a recap from yesterday.
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