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Good morning and welcome back to

TechCrunch’s Equity Monday

, a brief jumpstart for your week.

A few housekeeping notes. First, the main, long-from Equity episodes still drop every Friday, so if you are behind, check your podcast feed. Also, we’re running a listener survey which you can find

here, in the last ep’s shownotes

. And finally, I am off next week, so Danny Crichton

will take over Equity Monday for us. I’ll be right back.

All that behind us, here’s what we talked about this morning:

This essay from The Margins
that was the best thing anyone talked about on Twitter this weekend
SoftBank slides are out
, and they are quite a lot
Jack Ma quit SoftBank’s board
Looking ahead, Nvidia and HPE report earnings, Build is happening, and we’re anticipating another week of COVID-19 news.
Hello Customer raised €6 million according to Tech.EU
, while Pennylane raised €4 million
, also according to the Europe-focused technology publication.
And this morning I was taken in by the news that Swiggy is cutting around one-seventh of its staff
. News that the Indian food delivery was reducing headcount came Zomato, a local rival, was also cutting staff
. Not a great trend. The Indian startup market has become important and large, making these layoffs all the more worrisome.