This week on the TechCrunch Podcast our host, Managing Editor Darrell Etherington talks with Jacquelyn Melinek about the power and pitfalls of crypto communities and Devin Coldewey about why Pornhub’s COO and CEO have unceremoniously stepped down. And as always, you’ll get a rundown of the week’s top news on TechCrunch. 

Articles from the episode:

• Crypto’s emphasis on community could lead followers off a cliff
• CEO and COO of Pornhub parent company MindGeek abruptly resign

Other news from the week:

• Twitter to expand into long-form content with upcoming Twitter Notes feature 
• FDA orders Juul to stop selling its vaping products in the US
• Meta to roll out new monetization tools on Instagram and Facebook, including a creator marketplace

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

This week on the TechCrunch Podcast our host, Managing Editor Darrell Etherington talks with Bill Gates (yes, that Bill Gates) about whether we can still avoid climate disaster, the importance of crypto, and Elon Musk’s time management skills. He also talks with TC writer Ingrid Owen about Spotify’s acquisition of the Voice AI startup Sonatic. And as always, you’ll get a rundown of the week’s top news on TechCrunch. 

Articles from the episode:

• Bill Gates on economic turbulence, crypto and whether we can still avoid climate disaster
• Spotify is acquiring Sonantic, the AI voice platform used to simulate Val Kilmer’s voice in Top Gun Maverick

Other news from the week:

• The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
• Elon Musk tells Twitter employees he wants to be involved in product
• SpaceX internal open letter seeks condemnation of Elon Musk’s tweets
• Coinbase CEO says it is laying off 18% of its workers
• SpaceX said to have fired employees behind company-wide letter criticizing Elon Musk

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Podcast where you’ll hear everything you need to know about the week’s top stories in tech from the people who wrote them. This week our host, Managing Editor Darrell Etherington, mixes it up and talks with Kurt Knight who isn’t a TC writer but is the  Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing at Apple who comes on to talk about WWDC and updates to Apple's Continuity. We also talk with Lucas Matney about the former OpenSea exec whose arrest has the crypto world worried. And as always, you’ll get a rundown of the week’s top news on TechCrunch. 

Articles from the episode:

• Apple’s Continuity Camera lets you use your iPhone as a webcam
• The arrest heard ’round the crypto world’ by Lucas and Anita Ramaswamy

Other news from the week:

• Proposed bipartisan US crypto bill could be ‘sigh of relief’ for the industry
• Tesla accuses civil rights agency of unlawfully suing for racial discrimination
• Here’s everything Apple just announced at the WWDC 2022 keynote
• MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Podcast where you’ll hear everything you need to know about the week’s top stories in tech from the people who wrote them. This week our host, Managing Editor Darrell Etherington, talks with Mary Ann Azevedo  about two fintech giants, Affirm and Stripe, partnering up and what that means for competitors and Brian Heater comes on to preview next week’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference. And as always, you’ll get a rundown of the week’s top news on TechCrunch. 

Articles from the episode:

• Affirm teams up with Stripe as the BNPL wars intensify
• What to expect from Apple’s WWDC 2022 keynote

Other news from the week:

• Sheryl Sandberg will step down as Meta COO
• Former OpenSea exec arrested and charged with insider trading of NFTs
• a16z-backed Loom lays off 14% of staff, one year after becoming a unicorn
• SWVL plans to lay off 32% of its team two months after going public
• Tech layoffs top 15K in a brutal May

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Podcast where you’ll hear everything you need to know about the week’s top stories in tech from the people who wrote them. This week our host, Managing Editor Darrell Etherington, talks with Natasha Mascarenhas about the ongoing tech layoffs, Anita Ramaswamy about WeWork founder Adam Neumann moving into the crypto space with backing from a16z, And Devin Caldewey about AI-generated images.  Plus a rundown of the week’s top news on TechCrunch. 

Articles from the episode:

• A third straight week of tech layoffs in the books
• Latch, a proptech meets SaaS play, conducts two consecutive weeks of layoffs
• Adam Neumann’s blockchain-based redemption story now sponsored by a16z
• OpenAI: Look at our awesome image generator! Google: Hold my Shiba Inu

Other news from the week:

•   It’s official: Broadcom to acquire VMware in massive $61B deal
• Jack Dorsey steps down from Twitter’s board
• Twitter investors sue Elon Musk over acquisition shenanigans

Extras:

• Hana Mohan’s Twitter thread on the YC advice to founders
• Hana Mohan’s episode of Found
• Equity’s episode: We think founders need a quick Heart to Heart about the market

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

Welcome to the first episode of TheTechCrunch Podcast where you’ll hear everything you need to know about the week’s top stories in tech from the people who wrote them. This week our host, Managing Editor Darrell Etherington, talks with Taylor Hatmaker about the congressional hearing about UFOs in which pentagon experts say definitively UFOs are real and that sightings reports are way up. And Kirsten Korosec joins us to talk about all the news that came out of the TC Sessions: Mobility. Plus a rundown of the week’s top news on TechCrunch. 

Articles from the episode:

• At the first UFO hearing in 50 years, the Pentagon says unexplained reports are way up
• Top three takeaways from Nuro’s session at TC Sessions: Mobility
• Arrival unveils prototype of dedicated ride-hail vehicle at TC Sessions: Mobility
• Luminar’s Austin Russell: ‘We probably shouldn’t have existed’ but lidar will drive next-gen safety anyway

Other news from the week:

• Buffalo shooter invited others to his private Discord ‘diary’ 30 minutes before attack
• NY AG is investigating Twitch, Discord and 4chan for their role in the Buffalo mass shooting
• Twitter CEO and Elon Musk clash over bot-battling metrics
• Musk says Twitter deal is dead unless CEO can prove spam stats
• Three senior Twitter employees leave amid potential Musk takeover
• Watch Boeing’s make it or break it Starliner launch today
• YC advises founders to ‘plan for the worst’ amid market teardown

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

Introducing The TechCrunch Podcast where you’ll hear everything you need to know about the week’s top stories in tech from the people who wrote them.  Each week, Managing Editor Darrell Etherington will go in-depth on two or three of the week’s top stories from in and around the startup ecosystem, and he’ll be joined by the TechCrunch writers who wrote those stories. They’ll tell us why the stories are so important, and what they think the most important takeaways are for each, for both the general public and our venture industry insider audience.

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell.