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• More Meta layoffs: Studies recommend that Meta is planning to chop one other 4,000 jobs this week, Rebecca writes. If you’re conserving observe at dwelling, that is along with an announcement made in March to chop 10,000 jobs and 11,000 jobs that had been lower in November.
• And the winner is…: Amazon tops LinkedIn’s listing of finest locations to work, and Ingrid writes that jobseeker priorities have shifted to office tradition, concluding that “the large query is whether or not or not components like cultural values are an indication of our instances, or if these parameters will stay everlasting priorities amongst jobseekers, altering the larger image for a way recruiters can seize the perfect expertise — and certainly what ‘expertise’ will seem like — sooner or later.”
• Bay-be real, doo doo doo doo doo doo: The curtain is actually coming down on the lives of BeReal customers, who can now embody what they’re listening to on Spotify after they submit, Aisha stories.

Startups and VC

Many apps in the present day assume that knowledge lives in just one location, sometimes a single cloud database. However the actuality is extra advanced, Kyle stories. Due to the proliferation of cellular units and cloud infrastructure — the latter of which accelerated through the pandemic — apps now have to retailer and course of knowledge in additional locations, from the sting to the general public cloud. Ditto to the rescue so corporations can maintain all of it in sync.

There was just one fintech unicorn birth in the entire quarter. That is the primary time that has occurred for the reason that finish of 2016. The one unicorn born in Q1 was Egypt-based MNT-Halan, which in early February raised $260 million in fairness financing at a $1billion valuation, Mary Ann and Christine report of their look again on the first quarter of the yr.

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Software program traders should (re)be taught these 3 concepts earlier than entering into deep tech

As a result of VCs turned “software program investing right into a low-margin finance sport,” it is perhaps a web constructive that so many are “unable to maneuver ahead and spend money on the subsequent massive factor: deep tech,” says Champ Suthipongchai, co-founder and normal accomplice at Inventive Ventures.

A SaaS mindset simply isn’t related for deep tech funding, which suggests conventional VCs should recalibrate their habits (and expectations) earlier than diving in.

“Software program traders’ founder-first mantra is just fallacious on the planet of deep tech,” writes Suthipongchai. “One of these magical considering is precisely why their software program playbook is doomed to fail.”

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Large Tech Inc.

Tesla is price-checking everywhere. The electrical car firm cut prices again for the Model 3 and Model Y in order that these fashionable fashions are actually underneath $40,000, Rebecca stories. We’re now watching to see how effectively these margins did in affecting Tesla’s first-quarter earnings, that are scheduled to return out later in the present day.

The patron tech group coated the Snap Partner Summit in the present day, and right here are some things they discovered:

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