INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
lacking sense.This week was special! Kate and Alex were at Disrupt where they recorded live in front of an audience
Equity has recorded at Disrupt before
Equity has taped before an audience before
But this was the first time that we taped it at Disrupt and in front of an audience that actually had chairs
Progress!Charles Hudson of Precursor Ventures joined us as well, making for an excellent show
Astute listeners among us will recall that Hudson is a former guest on the show, having taken part back in mid-2017.On to the topics
We discussed the impending Precursor Ventures opportunity fund (more here)
We wanted to know why it was of modest size, especially in an era of ever-larger venture capital funds.Next, we turned to a trio of startup
stories, starting with Rhino, a company that is working to shake up the rental deposit market
Hate paying deposits for an apartment? Would you rather pay a small, regular fee? Rhino hopes that you would, and has raised $21 million to
build out the idea.Also on our list of topics was a small upstart by the name of Knowable, which our colleague Josh Constine profiled here
The company sells educational audio bits, and they want you to know they are not a podcasting business
funneling $3.75 million into the project.The last startup we riffed on is called oollee
The company provides people with an unlimited supply of filtered drinking water for a small monthly fee
and Columbus Holdings, and, of course, we have thoughts!After that we touched on the most valuable Y Combinator companies, including Stripe
(more here and here), Airbnb and DoorDash
And, it provided the perfect segue to Airbnb.Airbnb intends to go public via a direct listing, according to a whole bunch of recent reports
Finally, WeWork is selling off a bunch of stuff that it bought recently
