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Hoooo boy. As Alex would say: This week has been an extended yr. You simply understand it has been a fairly wild trip when Meta can lay off 13% of its workers, and it isn’t even actually within the high 10 of loopy issues that occurred.
Gmail not allows you to use the previous interface, you retro-loving nerd, you. Salesforce did a spherical of layoffs, the DOJ seized $3.36 billion value of Silk Road crypto, Binance mentioned it will purchase FTX, then backed out, inflicting Sequoia to write off its total FTX funding. Theranos’s founder Elizabeth Holmes will discover out her lot subsequent week, whereas Peloton’s founder gave up on train tools and is promoting rugs now. Then there was a wall of Twitter drama, together with utter chaos with Twitter’s new “verified” system after it laid off half of its workers, earlier than rapidly making strikes to rent a few of them again. Oh, and we’re all #RatVerified 4lyf now, I suppose.
May subsequent week be barely extra chill for you. It can be for Haje, who’s buggering off to go do some scuba diving for per week, and presumably trusting Apple together with his life within the course of. As he left for the day, he might be overheard muttering, “I hope there’s a bit of internet left when I come back.”
Take a breather, you’ll be able to all the time implode with stress subsequent week as a substitute. — Christine and Haje.
The TechCrunch Top 3
- Only the start, we concern: If you’ve been following the entire FTX firm drama, then little question you’ve gotten a tackle right now’s large story that the crypto change founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried filed for Chapter 11 chapter and likewise resigned his place. This comes after SBF thought there was an opportunity to avoid wasting the corporate via different strategies, like a tie-up with Binance after which some liquidity. This has been a lot that Jacquelyn mentioned on CNBC this morning that everybody ought to put their crypto in their very own non-public keys.
- All that back-and-forth is hurting our neck: We concern that Twitter builders have spent a lot of their 84-hour workweek flipping the “official badge” change on and off to appease Elon Musk’s always flip-flopping concepts. Natasha L has extra on what’s occurring.
- Potato, potahto, let’s name the entire thing off (and on once more): Ivan has one of the best headline all week — “Have you tried turning it off and on again, Elon?” We’re nonetheless ready for that reply.
Startups and VC
Our total information crew are flopped over of their respective sofas, barely shell shocked after one of many wildest information weeks we’ve seen. You know, we’re so exhausted, we’re not even gonna write a correct intro. Here, make your self a cup of tea and click on via these. Or don’t. You’re the grasp of your individual future.
Pitch Deck Teardown: Syneroid’s $500K seed deck
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Stolen-vehicle restoration methods have been accessible for many years, however a misplaced pet has increased emotional stakes.
According to Syneroid, a startup that makes sensible tags, 10 million pets are misplaced every year within the United States, however “less than 30% are returned home.”
After elevating a $500,000 seed spherical, the corporate’s founders shared their 12-slide pitch deck with TechCrunch for a evaluate. According to Haje Jan Kamps, “no information has been redacted or omitted.”
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Big Tech Inc.
Brian visited Amazon’s BOS27 robotics facility and never solely watched cute robots line up, but in addition realized in regards to the supply big’s plans for international domination. If you’ll be able to’t inform by now, it entails robotics and the way Amazon goals to enhance the world of last-mile supply.
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