Equity

This was our live show week! Yes, Mary Ann and Natasha and Alex got together with Grace for our Friday recording on Thursday, meaning that we gathered on Hopin and Twitter Spaces to yammer through the week's news. It was a very busy week, with breaking news up to the minute before we recorded -- including this piece from the Better.com saga.Square’s Better.com name Block is Butter-y smooth Failure is a choose-your-own adventure for startupsWill rising interest rates decimate startup valuations?Is today's market sad or sane?So! What did we get into? A lot:How Conceive is helping people manage the matter of infertility, Cottage raising $15 million to make ADUs more common, and how Tandem is taking on the hybrid work future.Next up was Austin, Mary Ann's home turf. We held an event there this week that we touched on, but the main thrust of our chat circled around this piece.From there it was time for the bad news -- including layoffs at Workrise, Better.com, and the implosion of Fast. The startup market is chang