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Christine is in an airport lounge and Haje is perched on the nook of a restaurant bench, because the TechCrunch staff is in transit post-Disrupt in the present day. We miss our work besties already (💯) and are hung over (metaphorically and actually) from an overabundance of wonderfulness this week. Get pleasure from Day by day Crunch, and see y’all subsequent week!

Oh, and we all know we talked about this yesterday, however an excellent factor deserves to be repeated: An enormous congrats to Minerva Lithium and their $100,000 Startup Battlefield win! — Christine and Haje

The TechCrunch High 3

• Holding again: Manish has some information from Amazon, which is saying that some {hardware} distributors are selecting to not type tv partnership agreements with the supply big over worry of retaliation from Google.
• Prepare for a worth hike: YouTube Premium is planning to lift costs — by $5 in some circumstances — for subscription plans in additional nations, together with the U.S., the U.Okay., Canada and Argentina, Ivan experiences.
• What goes up should come down: One other one by our fabulous colleague Manish, who experiences that shares of the Indian logistics firm fell to an “all-time low” after reporting a not-so-svelte development report.

Startups and VC

Draymond Inexperienced, the two-time Olympic gold medalist {and professional} basketball participant for the Golden State Warriors, says he’s working with well-known traders concerned within the tech area. That wasn’t a large secret — Inexperienced has traditionally been fairly public about his investments, like SmileDirectClub — however till TechCrunch Disrupt, he hadn’t beforehand named his go-to investing companions, nor made express that he’s not planning to start out a fund himself, Kyle experiences. You’ll be able to see all of Draymond’s chat (together with some fascinating dialog about that video that’s been floating about) with Brian.

When Parker Conrad based Rippling in 2016, the HR firm initially targeted on the method of onboarding workers. It has since advanced, Mary Ann experiences. Yesterday, at TechCrunch Disrupt, Rippling unveiled what Conrad describes because the “largest launch” of his profession — its new international payroll product.

You already know the drill — 5 extra, depend ’em! No, severely, depend ’em. We’re very drained in the present day and should have miscounted.

Pricey Sophie: How can I launch a startup whereas on OPT?

Pricey Sophie,

I’m a global scholar within the U.S. in F-1 standing. I’ll graduate with a bachelor’s diploma in pc science this Could and plan to use for OPT. I need to launch a startup.

Can I try this with OPT? What choices would I’ve after OPT to proceed rising my firm?

— Ahead-Wanting Founder

Three extra from the TC+ staff:

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Massive Tech Inc.

What do you say to the corporate that has practically all the things? Properly, Google doesn’t assume it has all the things on the subject of its presence in India and had some selection phrases for a few of the nation’s regulators. In response to yesterday’s $162 million positive, Google fired again at India’s competitors regulators, saying that the order is a “main setback for Indian shoppers and companies” and that it “opens critical safety dangers for Indians who belief Android’s safety features.” Manish has extra.

We can also’t ignore this juicy piece of…💩that got here in yesterday. With Elon Musk’s deal to accumulate Twitter now seemingly approaching the top, Taylor experiences that layoffs on the social media big may now be bigger than initially anticipated. She writes that cuts at Twitter might be as much as 75%. For these counting at residence, that’s like 5,600 individuals. Not cool.

And we have now 4 extra for you: