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The most learn story this week, by far, was information that Elon Musk quietly had twins with “certainly one of his high executives” final yr. Musk responded to the myriad takes with a tweet: “Doing my finest to assist the underpopulation disaster. A collapsing beginning price is the largest hazard civilization faces by far.”
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Elon Musk says he’s killing the Twitter deal: Elon Musk’s authorized staff introduced late Friday that they intend to halt the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, citing “false and deceptive representations upon which Mr. Musk relied when getting into into the Merger Settlement.” Twitter chairman Bret Taylor instantly responded with an announcement that “the Twitter Board is dedicated to closing the transaction on the value and phrases agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue authorized motion to implement the merger settlement.” That is gonna get messy.
Look is headed for the U.S.: Look is an organization that places tailor-made content material/video games (and, in fact, adverts) on an Android cellphone’s lock display. After discovering its method onto round 400 million smartphones in Asia over the previous few years, the corporate is prepping for a U.S. launch “inside two months,” in keeping with a scoop from our personal Manish Singh.
A much bigger, harder Apple Watch: Rumors of recent Apple units are at all times within the air … however when the very-often-correct Mark Gurman says one thing is coming, we have a tendency to concentrate. Gurman says that Apple is constructing a beefed out model of its Apple Look ahead to “excessive sports activities athletes” — one with a much bigger show for simpler studying mid-workout and a harder design so that you’ll fear much less about dings and dents.
Apple’s “Lockdown” Mode: It’s a generalization for certain, however the extra options your cellphone has, the extra potential assault vectors there are for hackers to focus on. With that in thoughts, Apple this week introduced “Lockdown Mode,” a setting coming to iOS/iPadOS/macOS that permits you to immediately disable quite a lot of options — suppose issues like what information it’ll open, what web sites are allowed to do, who can contact you, and so forth. It’s meant primarily for individuals who “could also be susceptible to extremely focused cyberattacks,” an Apple press launch mentioned, however might be obtainable to all later this yr.
Vauld hits pause: Cryptocurrency costs noticed large crashes all through Could and June, and crypto lending platform/trade Vauld mentioned early this week that it’s suspending “all withdrawals, buying and selling and deposits” because it explores “potential restructuring choices.” In a series of tweets, Vauld co-founder Darshan Bathija famous that prospects had withdrawn over $197 million from the platform in the previous few weeks alone.
Sunny Balwani discovered responsible: After a 3-month trial, former Theranos COO Sunny Balwani was discovered responsible on 12 prison expenses this week. For many who haven’t been following each beat of the Theranos catastrophe, Amanda put collectively a superb, succinct overview of the case to date — and the influence it has had on the startup ecosystem already.
Amanda interviews MKBHD: I could also be half a decade older than him, however I need to be Marques Brownlee after I develop up. In any other case often called MKBHD, he’s a wildly common tech YouTuber, more and more common TikToker, skilled final Frisbee participant (!), and an all-around-cool human. Amanda caught up with Marques at VidCon, the place they talked about every part from evolving the long-form content material he’s recognized for with the pacing of TikTok in thoughts, his ideas on the metaverse and the tech he thinks isn’t getting sufficient consideration.
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Over the previous few days, Darrell chatted with Amanda about her journey to VidCon on The DailyTech Podcast, Jacquie and Anita talked about crypto’s “savior” on Chain Response, and the Discovered podcast staff talked with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg about his 19 years main the corporate.
You’ll find all these and far, way more in our weekly podcast roundup.
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The factor that makes your pitch deck ineffective: “You’ve dismissed your Keynote expertise, you’re giddy that you simply’re lastly going to have the ability to begin paying your self a residing wage, and you might be excited to start out pitching your startup’s subsequent spherical of funding to your traders,” writes Haje (TC’s resident Pitch Deck knowledgeable). “It’s heady occasions, for certain, however hit the opposite pedal there for a second, buddy — chances are you’ll be forgetting one thing.”
In the meantime…: That final publish lined the slide Haje says each pitch deck wants; this one’s all in regards to the slide he thinks is ineffective.
So are we in a startup recession or what?: Alex Wilhelm spends extra time fascinated by the nitty-gritty of startup economics than simply about anybody I do know, so when he opens a publish with one thing like “I don’t know what’s going on within the startup market and it’s a little bit of a ache within the ass,” I learn on.