You might have noticed in your time online that a lot of the services and the websites that you\u2019re using are kind of getting\u2026worse. The good news, though, is that this means that there are different sectors that are ripe for disruption.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On today\u2019s episode of Equity (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/<\/a>) , Rebecca’s joined by Ed Zitron (https:\/\/x.com\/edzitron<\/a>) \u2014CEO of EZPR, host of the Better Offline podcast, and author of Why Everything Stopped Working\u2014to dig into why this shift is happening and what it means for startups.<\/p>\n Listen to the full episode to hear the pair discuss:<\/p>\n \u2022 Why it\u2019s time to ditch \u2018founder mode\u2019 for what Ed calls \u2018customer mode\u2019 \u2013 a more sustainable, customer-first approach that beats the growth-at-all-costs mentality.<\/p>\n \u2022 The opportunities Ed sees for startups in what he sees as a declining market<\/p>\n \u2022 The long-term outlook for generative AI companies like OpenAI. (Note: this interview was recorded before the DeepSeek (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/28\/deepseek-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ai-chatbot-app\/<\/a>) news broke, but don\u2019t worry \u2013 Equity will have that update for you later in the week.)<\/p>\n Equity is TechCrunch\u2019s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts (https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780<\/a>) , Overcast (https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity<\/a>) , Spotify (https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ)<\/a> and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X (https:\/\/twitter.com\/EquityPod<\/a>) and Threads (https:\/\/www.threads.net\/<\/a>@equitypod) , at @EquityPod. For the full episode transcript, for those who prefer reading over listening, check out our full archive of episodes here (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/<\/a>) .<\/p>\n Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. We\u2019d also like to thank TechCrunch\u2019s audience development team. Thank you so much for listening, and we’ll talk to you next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You might have noticed in your time online that a lot of the services and the websites that you\u2019re using<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}