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Mass layoffs at Twitter: It was Elon’s first full week because the boss of Twitter post-$44 billion acquisition. Sweeping layoffs have been stated to be on the way in which — and, nicely, they’ve begun. After a painfully impersonal heads-up e-mail went out Thursday night, complete groups are waking as much as discover their entry all of the sudden revoked. With stories suggesting layoffs may impression as much as half the corporate, Twitter workers have reportedly taken to referring to the entire thing as “the snap” (à la Thanos). A category motion lawsuit has already been filed alleging that Twitter isn’t following the right authorized processes right here.
Layoffs in all places: In the meantime, information of tech trade layoffs continues to pour in. Lyft let go of 13% of its workforce, Stripe lower 14%, Opendoor diminished its workforce by 18%, Chime parted methods with 12%, and extra. In the meantime, each Apple and Amazon have reportedly gone into hiring freezes.
Google kills Hangouts: We knew it was coming, however this week Google put the ultimate nail in Hangouts’ coffin, shutting down the chat-focused net app (the Hangouts Android/iOS apps have been shuttered final 12 months) in favor of Google Chat. After all, given Google’s historical past with chat apps, I anticipate not less than two extra to be launched and/or shuttered by the point I end this article.
Falcon Heavy returns to house: This week SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket for the primary time since 2019, lastly transferring ahead on a mission that had been delayed (“as a result of payload readiness points”) since late 2020.
Amazon expands its Music service: “The corporate stated it can now supply Prime subscribers a full music catalog with 100 million songs, as a substitute of the beforehand extra restricted number of simply 2 million songs,” writes Sarah, “and can make many of the high podcasts on its service obtainable with out adverts.”
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Whats up in TC podcast land this week? Right here’s a number of the highlights:
- The Fairness crew chatted in regards to the ever-evolving position of the enterprise capitalist, and our pal Melia Russell from Enterprise Insider stopped by to fill us in on her current story about how “buyers are rewriting the playbooks in the case of maternity depart insurance policies at their companies.”
- Amanda joined Darrell on the TC Podcast to debate Elon’s “questionable plans” to alter up how identification verification works on Twitter
- The Chain Response crew dive into the rising listing of troubles which have developed for Bitcoin miners in the previous couple of months.
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Pilot’s CEO tears down their $60 million Collection C deck: Printed in early 2021, this one blew up for some cause this week! Only a few weeks after elevating a giant Collection C, Pilot CEO Waseem Daher sat down with Lucas Matney to interrupt down what labored about their pitch deck.
The commonest pitch deck errors: Talking of pitch decks, TC’s resident pitch professional, Haje Jan Kamps, has an inventory of the errors he’s bored with seeing in decks, having reviewed hundreds of them.
