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Hellooooo, guess what? It’s November! We guess it was really November yesterday, too, however we failed to note, as a result of LOL what even is time, amirite. Anyway, put away your Halloween costumes and begin the sport of How Lengthy Can You Keep away from “Little Drummer Boy”? When you do wish to play that recreation, you’d be properly suggested to not click on this hyperlink, though that’s a very tolerable model of the tune, to be truthful.

Onward! — Christine and Haje

The TechCrunch High 3

• And for his subsequent act…: Manish was on a roll once more immediately, protecting some cool tales. The primary is on some former Googlers rallying round their peer Caesar Sengupta, who raised $90 million to scale Arta Finance, an organization that can present people related entry to various belongings which are often reserved for the ultrawealthy.
• Betting on web3: Manish’s second story is on Microsoft, which is backing South Korea–based mostly web3 recreation developer Wemade.
• Come collectively, proper now, within the cloud: Although many corporations are asking staff to return again into the workplace, they and others are nonetheless determining the right way to hold distributed groups working as one. Former Yext CEO Howard Lerman thinks he has created the most suitable choice with Roam, an organization that got here out of stealth immediately with $30 million in new funding, Kyle experiences.

Startups and VC

New information from greater than 200 startups present that CTOs earn larger salaries than their CEO counterparts. Largely, co-founders make the identical, however the place there’s a distinction, the steadiness usually ideas within the favor of the technical co-founder, Haje experiences.

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Expensive Sophie: How can college students work or launch a startup whereas sustaining their immigration standing?

Expensive Sophie,

I’m finding out bioinformatics at a college within the U.S.

What choices do I’ve to work earlier than and after commencement on my scholar visa? Do any of those choices enable me to launch my very own startup?

— Eager to Work

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Large Tech Inc.

Elon Musk met with civil rights leaders, and Amanda has all the small print on what went down. Most of the leaders had been involved with content material moderation, significantly coping with will increase in hate speech and undue affect on the midterm elections. In the meantime, Natasha M writes that one other Twitter govt is reportedly flying the coop.

In the meantime, Manish continues to observe the Byju’s saga. The newest is that India’s edtech large is a $1 billion IPO for Aakash, its bodily tutor chain.

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