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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 had been stated to be on the best way — and, effectively, they’ve begun. After a painfully impersonal heads-up e mail went out Thursday night, entire teams are waking as much as discover their entry all of a sudden revoked. With reviews suggesting layoffs may affect as much as half the corporate, Twitter workers have reportedly taken to referring to the entire thing as “the snap” (à la Thanos). A class action lawsuit has already been filed alleging that Twitter isn’t following the right authorized processes right here.
Layoffs everywhere: In the meantime, information of tech trade layoffs continues to pour in. Lyft let go of 13% of its workforce, Stripe cut 14%, Opendoor reduced its workforce by 18%, Chime parted ways 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 internet app (the Hangouts Android/iOS apps had been shuttered final 12 months) in favor of Google Chat. In fact, given Google’s historical past with chat apps, I count on at the very least two extra to be launched and/or shuttered by the point I end this article.
Falcon Heavy returns to space: This week SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket for the primary time since 2019, lastly transferring ahead on a mission that had been delayed (“because of payload readiness points”) since late 2020.
Amazon expands its Music service: “The corporate stated it would now provide Prime subscribers a full music catalog with 100 million songs, as an alternative of the beforehand extra restricted choice of simply 2 million songs,” writes Sarah, “and can make many of the prime podcasts on its service obtainable with out advertisements.”
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Whats up in TC podcast land this week? Right here’s a few of the highlights:
- The Equity crew chatted concerning the ever-evolving position of the enterprise capitalist, and our good friend Melia Russell from Enterprise Insider stopped by to fill us in on her latest story about how “buyers are rewriting the playbooks in the case of maternity depart insurance policies at their corporations.”
- Amanda joined Darrell on the TC Podcast to debate Elon’s “questionable plans” to alter up how identification verification works on Twitter
- The Chain Reaction staff dive into the rising listing of troubles which have developed for Bitcoin miners in the previous couple of months.
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Not part of TechCrunch+ but? Right here’s what TC+ members had been studying most behind the paywall:
Pilot’s CEO tears down their $60 million Series C deck: Revealed in early 2021, this one blew up for some cause this week! Just some 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 most common pitch deck mistakes: Talking of pitch decks, TC’s resident pitch knowledgeable, Haje Jan Kamps, has an inventory of the errors he’s uninterested in seeing in decks, having reviewed hundreds of them.
