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Should you’re questioning what our Spotify Wrapped listening personalities are, you’re in luck. See beneath. Glad finish of November — onward to the final month of the yr! — Christine and Haje
The TechCrunch High 3
- #SpotifyWrapped: Should you had been like most of us TechCrunchers right now, you had been discovering out what Spotify needed to say about your year-long listening traits. Sarah writes that along with the record of your most listened-to songs, Spotify Wrapped 2022 tried to guess your temper: Christine is “The Maverick” and Haje is “The Time Traveler,” in case you needed to know.
- More layoffs: Meals supply corporations proceed to have a tough go of it. DoorDash is the newest to announce it’s going to lay off 1,250 workers in efforts to cut back working bills, Aisha studies.
- It turns out you can have nice things: We loved Mary Ann’s well-done story on ResortPass, an organization that offers folks an opportunity to put out by the pool of a five-star resort with out having to remain there. The corporate’s latest $26 million money infusion contains superstar backers, and almost definitely five-star pool loungers, Jessica Alba and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Startups and VC
In the present day, crypto trade Kraken introduced it’s letting go of 1,100 staffers. The announcement got here from an organization weblog put up, Alex studies. Information that Kraken is slicing employees — and due to this fact prices — just isn’t a shock, given a usually gloomy macroeconomic local weather and even worse climes in crypto land. Talking of crypto land, Sarah studies that Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin challenge TBD kills its plan to trademark “Web5.” In the meantime, the creator of Magic: The Gathering spoke with Devin about why he put a paper game on the blockchain.
Aside from the world of crypto, it was a very good day for brand new funds — Christine studies that New Fare Partners is the latest female-led VC to close first fund, and Catherine has a narrative right now about Iterative launching its second fund concentrating on Southeast Asia–based mostly startups.
“Native Individuals are essentially the most impoverished group within the US, a vestige of intergenerational, systematic disenfranchisement. They’re additionally being hit the toughest by inflation proper now, because of this,” says Danielle Ahead, CEO and co-founder of Natives Rising in an interview with Mike. She is working to change that situation. “Whereas the tech trade is slowing down on hiring, tech jobs stay probably the most economically empowering, in-demand job alternatives of the longer term, particularly for many who need distant work.”
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Pricey Sophie: How ought to I put together for my visa interview?
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Pricey Sophie,
Our startup was simply accepted into the winter batch of a high accelerator!
My co-founder with an H-1B simply bought laid off from Massive Tech, however he’s OK as a result of his immigration lawyer is submitting a change of standing to B-1 throughout the 60-day grace interval. I’m nervous although, as a result of I’m exterior the U.S. and I don’t but have a B-1/B-2 customer visa.
How can I ace the visa interview? What kind of questions will I be requested? How ought to I put together?
— Tenacious in Tobago
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In Airbnb’s new life, it’s taking part in the position of actual property agent. The holiday residence rental big is now serving to renters find an apartment so they can Airbnb it, Ivan writes. Type of attention-grabbing when you think about that Airbnb and its hosts have gotten into hassle previously for itemizing properties with out permission from landlords, and in some instances town authorities.
Talking of stuff you’re allowed to do in cities, Brian studies that “San Francisco police can now use robots to kill.” The town’s board of supervisors handed the proposal that can permit robots for use solely “in excessive circumstances to avoid wasting or stop additional lack of harmless lives,” he writes.
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