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Oh heeeey! How are you doing right now? We’ve had a fairly busy day on the positioning right now, with a veritable cornucopia of stories spilling everywhere in the web. We’ve chosen among the most attention-grabbing slices for you beneath. Get pleasure from (so far as you possibly can take pleasure in one other day of stories about cutbacks and whispered recommendation to try to panic as little as doable). — Christine and Haje

The TechCrunch High 3

• WhatsUp over at WhatsApp: The messaging big has been getting ready us for this second since August, and it’s lastly right here: Communities! The brand new dialogue group allows extra folks to be included and options voice and video requires as much as 32 folks, in addition to emojis galore, polls and enormous file sharing, Sarah studies.
• May need to change to polka dots: Stripe cuts 14% of its workforce, and Paul writes that its CEO factors to “overhiring for the world we’re in” as having prompted the discount. Sadly, it’s a layoffs form of day, so head all the way down to Huge Tech Inc. should you can abdomen studying extra.
• The place on the earth is Ajit Mohan?: Properly, the previous head of Meta India is now over there at Snap and can function the president of the corporate’s APAC enterprise, Manish and Jagmeet write.

Startups and VC

“Most designers don’t have real-life manufacturing expertise and they’re drawing issues that aren’t useable by the manufacturing facility,” Xianfeng Wang, founder and CEO of Pacdora, tells TechCrunch. To bridge the hole between designers and producers. Wang’s workforce developed Pacdora, which is like Canva plus Figma for packaging, Rita studies. The platform provides 1000’s of packaging templates for all types of merchandise, from transport bins and occasional baggage to lotion bottles and yogurt pouches.

“I used to be all the time in search of that piece of software program that might assist us do that internally,” Juan Meisel informed Christine. He’s constructing a logistics resolution together with his new startup, Grip.  “I began advising some firms on the aspect. They bought their ButcherBox within the mail and have been attempting to ship something from frozen milk to chocolate, flowers and prescribed drugs.”

Okay, nice, have one other handful of startup information tales:

Proptech in Overview: 3 buyers clarify how finance-focused proptech startups can survive the downturn

How are finance-oriented property tech buyers reacting to the continued downturn in public markets?

Senior reporter Mary Ann Azevedo interviewed three VCs to be taught extra about how they’re counseling the businesses of their portfolios, which forms of startups are finest positioned to climate the downturn, and the way they’re managing danger:

• Pete Flint, common associate, NFX
• Zach Aarons, co-founder and common associate, MetaProp
• Nima Wedlake, principal, Thomvest Ventures

Three extra from the TC+ workforce:

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Huge Tech Inc.

Step proper up, of us! We all know you don’t like carrying round a paper grocery listing — heck, we all know scrolling on that small cellphone display is a nuisance, too. Properly, Amazon and Mojo Imaginative and prescient have a deal with for you, or quite, your eyeballs. At this time, they launched a proof of idea function that Brian says is “the primary main third-party client utility on a sensible contact lens.” That’s proper, an Alexa Buying Listing integration for a contact lens that has a computing interface.

Layoffs, layoffs so far as the attention can see right now. Whereas we already shared the Stripe information with you, and as you’ve probably been listening to for the previous week, Elon Musk can be performing some workforce discount at Twitter. Natasha L studies that he now plans to slash Twitter’s headcount by half. In the meantime, Kirsten writes that Lyft is shedding 13% of its workforce in an effort to chop working bills.

And we now have 5 extra for you: