Hello and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the startup business, where we reveal the numbers and the nuances behind the headlines. It’s our Monday show, where we explore the weekend and take a look at the week ahead. We’ll talk more on Wednesday, but it’s Y Combinator Demo Day week, so expect a deluge of startup news.
On today’s podcast, we explored the latest Discord news that indicates it’s getting ready to open its doors to ads. As I wrote in 2022, this is standard practice for tech companies growing, even if we don’t like it as consumers. (Just look at YouTube’s ad load, for example.)
We also got in on this super neat trucking startup round, TechCrunch’s latest cybersecurity scoop that’s big news for AT&T customers, and even upcoming changes to the Android podcasting ecosystem that will YouTube Music to become even more important within Alphabet’s consumer empire. Press play and let’s have fun!
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