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Hellooooo, guess what? It’s November! We guess it was truly 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”? In case you do wish to play that recreation, you’d be effectively suggested to not click on this hyperlink, though that’s a very tolerable model of the track, to be truthful.

Onward! — Christine and Haje

The TechCrunch High 3

• And for his subsequent act…: Manish was on a roll once more at present, overlaying 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 may present people related entry to various belongings which can be normally 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 firms are asking workers to come back again into the workplace, they and others are nonetheless determining easy methods to preserve 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 at present with $30 million in new funding, Kyle experiences.

Startups and VC

New knowledge from greater than 200 startups present that CTOs earn increased salaries than their CEO counterparts. Principally, co-founders make the identical, however the place there’s a distinction, the steadiness sometimes 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 pupil visa? Do any of those choices enable me to launch my very own startup?

— Eager to Work

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Massive Tech Inc.

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

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

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