Don’t ever leak data, but especially if you’re building this

Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas, Mary Ann Azevedo

@alex / @nmasc_ / @bayareawriter / 7:00 am PDT • April 7, 2023

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.

This was Y Combinator week in a sense, with the well-known accelerator showing off hundreds of startups over a two-day period. We had some thoughts about that. But! There was a lot more for Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex to dig into, so we have a little something for everyone today.

Here are the show notes, enjoy!

First, support our sibling podcasts Found and Chain Reaction in the Webbys! They deserve it, and we’re voting for them too.
For our Deals of the Week, we had: Monument and Tempest shared patients’ private data with advertisers, Acorns buys GoHenry and Alex has notes on how the Q1 venture capital market is shaping up.
Looking for all the Y Combinator notes your heart could desire? You can find our favorites from days one and two at these links, and read this Natasha piece on why the Bay is back.
We also took the time to discuss the term “demo day” for an event where there are no, you know, demos.

Yeah, of course, YC’s winter class is oozing with AI companies

Latin America was back on the show thanks to Mary Ann, giving us a good reminder that we have not spent enough time lately looking at the region.
We closed with Frank, a frank chat that frankly had us shaking our heads. Fraud is bad, and nearly doubly so when it comes to startups, where trust plays such a critical role.

Equity will return to your ears Monday morning, cheers until then!

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