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Will's Weekly Roundup is a curated list of tech, business, and startup headlines from last week to kickstart your Monday.
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Business
The business headlines you missed (or need to see again)...
Zoom - Zoom’s CEO said employees need to go back to the office because it's hard to build trust over Zoom. LINK
D’Amelio - TikTok's D'Amelio family raised $5 million for their new food brand Be Happy Snacks. LINK
Threads - Meta’s Twitter competitor Threads has lost more than 80% of its daily active users since its peak. LINK
Juul - Juul will cut 30% of its staff, as the vaping giant, which was once valued at $38 billion, waits to find out if it can sell its products in the US. LINK
OnlyFans - OnlyFans said payments made through its platform rose to $5.6 billion in 2022. LINK
Tech
The tech headlines you missed (or need to see again)...
Walmart - Walmart will soon offer drone deliveries in Dallas. LINK
Space - India became the 4th country to land a spacecraft on the Moon. LINK
iPhone 15 - The iPhone 15 is rumored to have a USB-C charging port instead of the Lighting port. LINK
Cargo Ships - An innovative wind-powered cargo ship sets sail, charting a new lower-carbon path for the maritime industry. LINK
reCAPTCHA - AI bots are now easily beating the “I’m not a robot” reCAPTCHA tests. LINK
Watchlist
Startups and companies I’m keeping an eye on…
New School Foods is a Toronto-based startup developing a way to construct a salmon substitute with the taste and texture of the real thing. LINK
Viome is a genomic testing company that uses RNA sequencing technology to analyze the gut microbiome and provide personalized recommendations for diet and supplements. LINK
Enough Foods is fermenting fungi with natural sugars from grains to make a sustainable protein called Abunda. LINK
Red Plant Labs created a new programming platform called Rama that reduces the cost of building scalable backends by 100x. LINK
No Story Lost assists families in preserving their parents' life stories by conducting phone interviews, gathering cherished memories and anecdotes, and transforming them into professionally written coffee table books. LINK
Outside Interests
Interesting internet finds…
Vegans - Just 1% of Americans identify as vegan in 2023, down from 3% five years ago. LINK
Deliveries - If UK delivery companies shifted to cargo bikes instead of diesel vans for first and last-mile deliveries, it would save taxpayers over $5+ billion in public health and other services. LINK
Big Pharma - Here’s the story of how one man exposed the biggest pharma scandal of our lifetime. LINK
Visuals
Three visuals worth taking a look at...
Foundational Al models have become exponentially more powerful as training computation has grown.
The average household income by quintile and the top 5%.
The fast-food chains opening and closing the most stores.
Wisdom
Two quotes of wisdom...
"Sometimes a dream almost whispers… it never shouts. Very hard to hear. So you have to, every day of your lives, be ready to hear what whispers in your ear." — Steven Spielberg
"Some things work and some things don't. There is almost always another way to get where you want to go. Don't keep trying to open a locked door." — James Clear
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