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Daily Crunch: Peloton CEO to shareholders: ‘Turnarounds are hard work’

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It’s a hardware feast this news cycle on Ye Olde TechCrunch: DJI launched its entry-level quadcopter at under $700. Blockchain : As new blockchains continue to spring up, and after last year’s “DeFi” summer that brought new traction to Ethereum, Bitcoin investors have had to start watching their backs. Startups and VC.

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Daily Crunch: After slashing 2,800 jobs, Peloton taps former Spotify CFO to replace outgoing CEO

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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, February 8, 2022! Today we’re talking layoffs, blockchain infra, a called-off mega-deal, and chip-based national security. All aboard the crypto infra boom : Backing individual crypto projects is good fun, as is buying up tokens in a new blockchain you believe in. TechCrunch Top 3.

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Arkive is building the world’s first decentralized museum

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TechCrunch spoke to the company’s founder, Tom McLeod, to find out why we need a blockchain-powered museum. Let me just start by saying that I’m generally pretty bearish on blockchain tech, and nobody in their right mind would pitch a crypto startup to me. That’s the premise of Arkive , which just raised a $9.6

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Daily Crunch: Marqeta acquires fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $275M

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million to help scale blockchains. To da moon : Manish reports that Walmart-backed PhonePe’s nine-month 2022 revenue surged to $234 million. Image Credits: Daniela Simona Temneanu / EyeEm (opens in a new window) / Getty Images For SaaS startups, tax time can create a conundrum.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Plaid’s staffing story, RevOps for B2B sales, demo day’s demise

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” Today and tomorrow, we’ll have team coverage of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day , including a selection of staff favorites, so be sure to check the site each afternoon. Image Credits: Martin Harvey (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: South_agency (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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Daily Crunch: Global VC firm Partech reaches first close of largest African fund at €245 million

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And it’s all thanks to the immutable, persistent nature of the Bitcoin blockchain, the perfect place to follow the money. Martin UW Photography (opens in a new window) / Getty Images The Defender’s Dilemma is one of cybersecurity’s touchstones: “Defenders have to be right every time.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Layoffs and H1-B visas, SaaS growth levers, blockchain startup tips

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Image Credits: Alan Rubio (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Hardware startup founders have a uniquely hard time. Instead of relying on sales and marketing teams to build a customer base for his hardware components startup, Ori Mor’s company started building devices that used his company’s tech.