Unraveling Startups: Fast's Collapse and Bolt's Bold Moves

Some folks at Twitter are nervous about Elon Musk’s arrival, so he’s going to do an AMA to rally the troops. Twitter is testing unmentioning. Robinhood is fully rolling out that promise wallet feature. The increasing lexicon of euphemisms people have to use to speak freely on sites like TikTok. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Elon Musk to address Twitter staff after internal outcry (Washington Post)
• Twitter test lets you 'unmention' yourself in tweets (Engadget)
• Robinhood widens user access for crypto wallet transfers, unveils plan to support Lightning payments for bitcoin (The Block)
• Gartner forecasts global tech spending to hit $4.4 trillion this year, up 4% (Silicon Angle)
• Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nobs’ to ‘le dollar bean’ (Washington Post)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• The Scoop: Inside Fast’s Rapid Collapse (The Pragmatic Engineer)
• Millennial Billionaire Ryan Breslow Created Buzz, And Enemies, Attacking Stripe And Shopify. He’s Just Getting Started. (Forbes)
• SCOOP: Crypto Fund Paradigm's Assets Under Management Climb 343% to $13.2 Billion (Newcomer)
• The Metaverse Has Bosses Too. Meet the ‘Managers’ of Axie Infinity (Motherboard/Vice)
• This Startup Promised People Free Crypto If They Scanned Their Eyeballs. Now People Feel They've Been Scammed. (BuzzFeed)

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