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Daily Crunch: SBF says he’s ‘had a bad month,’ but is he really giving us the full story?

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FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried have had a lot of column inches on Ye Olde Teche Crunche over the past couple of days. Web3 developer platform Fleek has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Polychain Capital , the company told Jacquelyn. Your reward is…a slice of the stock market! : Big Tech Inc. You can sign up here.

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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

TechCrunch

Films weren’t always widescreen. Originally they were more likely to be approximately the shape of a 35mm film frame, for obvious reasons. If you matted out the top and bottom, you could project a widescreen image, which people liked — but you were basically just zooming in on a part of the film, which you paid for in detail.

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Nigeria’s IROKO plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange AIM in 2022

TechCrunch

IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. Founded by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter in 2011, IROKO boasts the largest online catalog of Nollywood film content globally.

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Daily Crunch: Raba Partnership leads $2.1M seed round for African fintech startup Thepeer

TechCrunch

Time sure flies when the Daily Crunch team entrusts you — meaning me — with TechCrunch’s newsletter of record. As profitable as adult film tends to be, MindGeek bore the brunt of a payment processor crusade against pornography platforms 2 years ago, with processors, including Mastercard, suspending payments to the company’s brands.

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Daily Crunch: Amazon CEO says laying off 9,000 more workers ‘is best for the company long-term’

TechCrunch

. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 A surprising turn of events : Paul has the latest on Amazon, which confirmed another round of layoffs, this time impacting 9,000 people in AWS (see below), Twitch (see Big Tech) and other units. million round to scale its recycling tech. You want more? Y’all are hella greedy.

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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

During COVID-19, Zoom-enabled tech workers have discovered the benefits of remote work from cheaper, less congested communities elsewhere. But other challenges to Silicon Valley’s preeminence are more fundamental than the tech diaspora. mRNA vaccines have given us a promising path to COVID immunity, developed in record time.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

The author’s Harvard Business Review articles are among the most highly read in the magazine’s history. Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Does he ever mean what he says?