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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Equity is closing out the week as always with a round up of the week's top startup and venture news. Kirsten, Devin and return guest host Margaux McColl had no shortage of themes to cover: VC karaoke, the SpaceX economy, no moats for AI, OpenAI versus open source. To kick things off, we weighed in on Caroline Ellison's sentencing and deals of the week from Reflect Orbital and Pyka. Of course, we had to dive deep into Y Combinator's Summer 2024 Demo Day cohort from there - including a highlight of a few non-AI and AI startups that got our attention. And on the non-AI point, we noticed another startup getting VC attention: Synex and its portable MRIs to test glucose. Clearly, we had much to discuss on today's episode, so press play and join the conversation!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity Tech Runch's flagship podcast about the
0:15.6	business of startups. Today is Editor, Devon Coldaway.
0:25.8	Devon, I have a really important question for you.
0:28.7	Go on.
0:29.7	Is it okay to use as your slack profile photo a shirtless photo of yourself good or bad.
0:40.0	Only if you are a dog or some other furry animal.
0:44.8	Okay, so fur is fine.
0:46.8	Yeah, fur is fine.
0:47.8	Okay, well, it's an important interesting detail in this cloud kitchen scoop that we wrote about and I will you know not
0:55.4	reveal all the details but big surprise Travis Kalimic is involved and in this case
1:00.2	Cloud Kitchens co-founder used a dating profile style shirtless photo of himself
1:05.3	for his like profile photo at the workplace.
1:08.0	So this is a very healthy working environment. It is a healthy working environment and you might have heard someone just say what and that is
1:16.3	Tech Ranch senior reporter Margot, Margot, welcome back to the show Margot.
1:20.3	Hi. Besides responding like everyone should with what?
1:25.2	What else have you been working on this week?
1:27.2	A lot of defense tech.
1:28.4	The second we wrap recording this, I'm going to have to call an Uber to Shield AI's office in DC. I'm going to go interview the founder.
1:34.8	Nice. Well, looking forward to that.
1:37.0	Well, as we do every Friday, we are rounding up the week's startup and venture headlines.
1:42.2	Today you can look forward to
1:44.9	Reflect orbital can't wait to talk about that autonomous electric plane startup
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