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For those who’re questioning what our Spotify Wrapped listening personalities are, you’re in luck. See under. Blissful finish of November — onward to the final month of the yr! — Christine and Haje

The TechCrunch High 3

• #SpotifyWrapped: For those who have been like most of us TechCrunchers right this moment, you have been discovering out what Spotify needed to say about your year-long listening developments. Sarah writes that along with the checklist of your most listened-to songs, Spotify Wrapped 2022 tried to guess your temper: Christine is “The Maverick” and Haje is “The Time Traveler,” in case you needed to know.
• Extra layoffs: Meals supply corporations proceed to have a tough go of it. DoorDash is the most recent to announce it should lay off 1,250 workers in efforts to cut back working bills, Aisha studies.
• It seems you may have good issues: We loved Mary Ann’s well-done story on ResortPass, an organization that provides individuals an opportunity to put out by the pool of a five-star resort with out having to remain there. The corporate’s latest $26 million money infusion contains superstar backers, and probably five-star pool loungers, Jessica Alba and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Startups and VC

As we speak, crypto alternate Kraken introduced it’s letting go of 1,100 staffers. The announcement got here from an organization weblog put up, Alex studies. Information that Kraken is chopping employees — and subsequently prices — isn’t a shock, given a usually gloomy macroeconomic local weather and even worse climes in crypto land. Talking of crypto land, Sarah studies that Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin undertaking TBD kills its plan to trademark “Web5.” In the meantime, the creator of Magic: The Gathering spoke with Devin about why he put a paper sport on the blockchain.

Aside from the world of crypto, it was a superb day for brand new funds — Christine studies that New Fare Companions is the most recent female-led VC to shut first fund, and Catherine has a narrative right this moment about Iterative launching its second fund focusing on Southeast Asia–based mostly startups.

“Native Individuals are probably the most impoverished group within the US, a vestige of intergenerational, systematic disenfranchisement. They’re additionally being hit the toughest by inflation proper now, consequently,” says Danielle Ahead, CEO and co-founder of Natives Rising in an interview with Mike. She is working to vary that state of affairs. “Whereas the tech business is slowing down on hiring, tech jobs stay one of the vital economically empowering, in-demand job alternatives of the longer term, particularly for many who want distant work.”

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In Airbnb’s new life, it’s taking part in the position of actual property agent. The holiday house rental big is now serving to renters discover an condominium to allow them to Airbnb it, Ivan writes. Form of attention-grabbing when you think about that Airbnb and its hosts have gotten into bother up to now for itemizing properties with out permission from landlords, and in some circumstances the town authorities.

Talking of belongings you’re allowed to do in cities, Brian studies that “San Francisco police can now use robots to kill.” The town’s board of supervisors handed the proposal that can permit robots for use solely “in excessive circumstances to save lots of or forestall additional lack of harmless lives,” he writes.

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