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Oh heeeey! How are you doing at present? We’ve had a fairly busy day on the positioning at present, with a veritable cornucopia of reports spilling everywhere in the web. We’ve chosen a number of the most attention-grabbing slices for you beneath. Take pleasure in (so far as you possibly can get pleasure from one other day of reports about cutbacks and whispered recommendation to try to panic as little as attainable). — Christine and Haje

The TechCrunch High 3

• WhatsUp over at WhatsApp: The messaging big has been getting ready us for this second since August, and it’s lastly right here: Communities! The brand new dialogue group allows extra individuals to be included and options voice and video requires as much as 32 individuals, in addition to emojis galore, polls and enormous file sharing, Sarah reviews.
• Would possibly need to swap to polka dots: Stripe cuts 14% of its workforce, and Paul writes that its CEO factors to “overhiring for the world we’re in” as having brought on the discount. Sadly, it’s a layoffs sort of day, so head all the way down to Massive Tech Inc. if you happen to can abdomen studying extra.
• The place on the planet is Ajit Mohan?: Nicely, the previous head of Meta India is now over there at Snap and can function the president of the corporate’s APAC enterprise, Manish and Jagmeet write.

Startups and VC

“Most designers don’t have real-life manufacturing expertise and they’re drawing issues that aren’t useable by the manufacturing facility,” Xianfeng Wang, founder and CEO of Pacdora, tells TechCrunch. To bridge the hole between designers and producers. Wang’s group developed Pacdora, which is like Canva plus Figma for packaging, Rita reviews. The platform affords 1000’s of packaging templates for all types of merchandise, from transport containers and occasional luggage to lotion bottles and yogurt pouches.

“I used to be all the time in search of that piece of software program that would assist us do that internally,” Juan Meisel instructed Christine. He’s constructing a logistics answer along with his new startup, Grip.  “I began advising some firms on the aspect. They acquired their ButcherBox within the mail and had been making an attempt to ship something from frozen milk to chocolate, flowers and prescription drugs.”

Okay, nice, have one other handful of startup information tales:

Proptech in Overview: 3 traders clarify how finance-focused proptech startups can survive the downturn

How are finance-oriented property tech traders reacting to the continued downturn in public markets?

Senior reporter Mary Ann Azevedo interviewed three VCs to study extra about how they’re counseling the businesses of their portfolios, which sorts of startups are finest positioned to climate the downturn, and the way they’re managing danger:

• Pete Flint, common associate, NFX
• Zach Aarons, co-founder and common associate, MetaProp
• Nima Wedlake, principal, Thomvest Ventures

Three extra from the TC+ group:

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Massive Tech Inc.

Step proper up, people! We all know you don’t like carrying round a paper grocery listing — heck, we all know scrolling on that small cellphone display is a nuisance, too. Nicely, Amazon and Mojo Imaginative and prescient have a deal with for you, or relatively, your eyeballs. Right this moment, they launched a proof of idea function that Brian says is “the primary main third-party shopper software on a wise contact lens.” That’s proper, an Alexa Procuring Checklist integration for a contact lens that has a computing interface.

Layoffs, layoffs so far as the attention can see at present. Whereas we already shared the Stripe information with you, and as you’ve possible been listening to for the previous week, Elon Musk can be doing a little workforce discount at Twitter. Natasha L reviews that he now plans to slash Twitter’s headcount by half. In the meantime, Kirsten writes that Lyft is shedding 13% of its workforce in an effort to chop working bills.

And we now have 5 extra for you: