Pick your poison: recruitment or retention?

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

This week, Alex andtoptechtrends.com/author/natasha-mascarenhas/”> Natasha discussed the latest and greatest of this consuming news cycle. Our goal with the episode, as always, is to go beyond what you may see in a 140 character-take on [insert big story here]. And in today’s recording? That wasn’t hard at all.

• We started with our good news segment: 1) toptechtrends.com/2022/11/15/maven-now-valued-at-1-35-billion-is-answering-a-country-wide-demand-more-fertility-benefits/”>Maven, now valued at $1.35 billion, is answering a countrywide demand: More fertility benefits and 2) toptechtrends.com/2022/11/14/alibaba-eyes-logistics-growth-in-latam-as-china-commerce-slows/”>Alibaba eyes logistics growth in LatAm as China commerce slows. We love a chance to talk about growth, despite all odds and even trends!
• Then, right off the heels of our amazing debut crypto conference, we take a minute to talk about the FTX Fall out. Yep, we’re talking about toptechtrends.com/2022/11/14/african-web3-startup-nestcoin-declares-it-held-its-assests-in-ftx-lays-off-employees/”>how one African Web3 startup got screwed over  and whytoptechtrends.com/2022/11/14/softbank-ftx-crypto/”> SoftBank joined Sequoia in marking down its investment in the crypto exchange.
• We then turn to the latest in layoffs: toptechtrends.com/2022/11/16/amazon-begins-layoffs-as-economic-woes-mount/”>Amazon’s 3% cut, cuts at Morning Brew and Protocol, and toptechtrends.com/2022/11/16/musk-poses-workers-with-a-choice-quit-twitter-or-prepare-to-get-hardcore/”>Musk’s latest attempt to recruit (or retain?) Twitter employees. We still don’t know what’s happening there, don’t ask us. Ok fine, you can.
• And we’ll end by throwing this gem here, with little to know context:toptechtrends.com/2022/11/16/i-volunteer-as-tribute/”> I volunteer as tribute. 

And that’s wrap. As always you can follow the show @equitypod, leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts and, most importantly, be kind to your people. Talk soon!

toptechtrends.com/2022/11/18/pick-your-poison-recruitment-or-retention/”>Pick your poison: recruitment or retention? by toptechtrends.com/author/natasha-mascarenhas/”>Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on toptechtrends.com/”>TechCrunch