Author: Alex Wilhelm

Equity podcast: Apple’s 0M deals, Target buys a startup and uh-oh net neutrality <input type="hidden" name="fallback" value=" This embed is invalid” /> [embedded content] Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley and myself — Alex Wilhelm — were joined by Eric Liaw from IVP to dig through the pre-Christmas news. Normally, happenings are slow this time of the year. But, living up to its reputation as a year-apart, 2017 is not delivering the normal news slowdown. So, putting…

Equity podcast: Uber’s big discount, more money for Pokémon, and Jeff Bezos is worth how much? <input type="hidden" name="fallback" value=" This embed is invalid” /> [embedded content] Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-themed podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Katie Roof and Alex Wilhelm were joined by Heather Hartnett of Human Ventures. It has been a surprisingly newsy November, so we narrowed ourselves to just a few topics: Uber, Niantic, Meetup, and Jeff Bezos’ checking account. First up, Uber. We know that we’ve spent a lot…

Equity podcast: Stitch Fix and Sailpoint get their IPOs done AUDIO Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we assembled the full crew — Matthew Lynley, Katie Roof and Alex Wilhelm — along with Stephanie Palmeri from Uncork Capital. Palmeri has invested in Poshmark, Chariot, and ClassDojo, for context. Her investment in Poshmark made her a perfect guest as we spent the bulk of our time in the podcast room digging through the Stitch Fix IPO, which wound up…

The US-based tech company that just went public in London Alex WilhelmContributor Alex Wilhelm is the editor-in-chief of Crunchbase News and co-host of Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast. More posts by this contributor: Live from Disrupt SF: Equity talks Slack, Lyft and flying cars Understanding Roku’s IPO and its growing platform revenues Boku, a United States-based carrier billing company, listed on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) recently, selling £45 million in stock. Only about one-third of those shares were from the company, however, with the rest sourced from extant shareholders. The flotation…

Equity podcast: Musical.ly, Bumble, SendGrid and not Uber <input type="hidden" name="fallback" value=" This embed is invalid” /> [embedded content] Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week, the crew — Katie Roof and Alex Wilhelm — were joined by David Pakman, a partner at Venrock, who helped us dig through the news. And news there was. We first dug into the big Musical.ly deal, working to understand why the company was worth as much as its rumored price tag purports. Anytime things get…

Unpacking Lyft’s projected financials Alex WilhelmContributor Alex Wilhelm is the editor-in-chief of Crunchbase News and co-host of Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast. More posts by this contributor: Live from Disrupt SF: Equity talks Slack, Lyft and flying cars Understanding Roku’s IPO and its growing platform revenues Last Friday, Bloomberg reported a sheaf of Lyft’s financials that paint a reasonably-sharp picture of the ridesharing company’s past and expected business performance. The short version, as you certainly expected, is that Lyft is growing quickly and loses money. The company, as you certainly expected, also expects to keep…

Equity Shot: The Uber-Softbank deal explained <input type="hidden" name="fallback" value=" This embed is invalid” /> [embedded content] Hello and welcome to another Equity Shot, a quick-hit episode of our venture-capital themed podcast. (Equity, released every Thursday, focuses on the money behind the headlines.) This week Katie Roof and I — Alex Wilhelm — sank our teeth into the story that roiled the tech community’s weekend and continued to cause waves today. Yes, the Uber-SoftBank story — which we might want to call the Uber-SoftBank-Dragoneer story now, but that’s getting ahead…

Equity podcast: Roku’s on a tear, and Snap had an awful week <input type="hidden" name="fallback" value=" This embed is invalid” /> [embedded content] Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley and Alex Wilhelm dug into the recent earnings run and talked through what’s coming next in the IPO pipeline. We were joined by Heidi Mayon from Gunderson Dettmer, the perfect company this week to help us understand the next public offerings. Up first was Snap’s earnings miss. The firm came…

Big tech goes five for five Alex WilhelmContributor Alex Wilhelm is the editor-in-chief of Crunchbase News and co-host of Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast. More posts by this contributor: Live from Disrupt SF: Equity talks Slack, Lyft and flying cars Understanding Roku’s IPO and its growing platform revenues As October came to a close, three of the five largest American tech companies beat earnings expectations. The quarterly results of Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet were impressive, with each firm bringing in both more revenue and profit than analysts had expected. And, as we explored at…

Equity podcast: Apple and Tesla report earnings, and IPOs are back <input type="hidden" name="fallback" value=" This embed is invalid” /> [embedded content] Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a treat due to the huge news cycle we followed. So, Katie Roof and I — Alex Wilhelm — brought David Golden into the studio to help us carve through it all. Golden is a managing partner at Revolution Ventures, an investing shop based primarily in Washington, D.C….