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Julie Bort
@Julie188
Editor at Large, Tech for Insider (formerly Business Insider). I'm a mom, skier and mountain biker. businessinsider.com/author/julie-b
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New from and me: startup unicorns Workato and Clari are the latest to slash jobs in the great tech pullback after January saw a brutal increase in #techlayoffs. Get the details in :
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When the guy who gave you $400 million to help you buy Twitter starts to complain in private, and then you keep testing new things on millions of users instead of just a couple thousand, and then you say publicly something "fundamental is wrong"
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“This is a match made in heaven. Together, Salesforce and Slack will shape the future of enterprise software and transform the way everyone works in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world."
businessinsider.com/marc-benioff-s via
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For those that wonder about Glassdoor reviews: The CEO of buzzy healthtech startup Vial, which slashed up to 50 jobs last year, asked remaining employees to write positive Glassdoor reviews businessinsider.com/healthtech-sta scoop via @ and
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Feels like ChatGPT is the new self-driving cars from a decade ago. Only it's in everyone's hands already.
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Surprise! New York's Union Square is beating and in returns. The latter two are in the red, scoopster reports businessinsider.com/vc-returns-uni via
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According to Hollywood, people are always getting into fist fights on top of fast-moving trains.
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I was on yesterday talking about tech layoffs (sad!) and also the art hanging in the newsroom (happy!)
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this nick bostrom stuff is so disturbing. it’s not every day you see one of the ea longtermist superintelligence talking heads say they support eugenics, but it’s not terribly surprising.
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Story of the day has to be JP Morgan/Frank and this is my favorite take so far.
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One week ago he died. Today: Damar Hamlin has been discharged from the hospital and is back in Buffalo. Wow. insider.com/damar-hamlin-d via
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Feel like I need to find a reason to try ChatGPT or Dall-e-2 more throughly than I have or I'll fall into a luddite hole. But I don't draw and am happy writing my own thoughts. Hmm.
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Inside Salesforce's layoffs week from hell: Angry employees describe chaos, confusion and 'tone deaf' leaders as they fight for their jobs businessinsider.com/salesforce-lay via and
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#Salesforce confirmed to Insider that it is planning more layoffs in the US. Employees couldn't get a straight answer last week businessinsider.com/salesforce-con via and
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Salesforce confirms it is planning more layoffs in the US businessinsider.com/salesforce-con via and
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Apple needs another hit product. But the rumored new AR/VR glasses will not be it. businessinsider.com/apple-new-prod via
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How in the hell hasn't Roger Goodell stepped in and called this game off already?
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Love this piece! "It's on me to create and live a vibrant life, and I intend to do it." 💥
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Thanks for the great chat. Learning our boundaries is what ultimately defines who we are. Happy New Year friends.
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GoStudent, a $3 billion education startup backed by Coatue and SoftBank, has started a fresh wave of layoffs that could hit over 100 jobs, sources say businessinsider.com/gostudent-3-bi via
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USA Damian Williams: Earlier this evening, Bahamian authorities arrested Samuel Bankman-Fried at the request of the U.S. Government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY. We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time.
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Ray Wang, the analyst who knows everyone, has an interesting take on MSFT FTC battle. He says this shows that companies who take stands on social issues are not granted special favors by gov agencies.
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MyPOV: my thoughts on @microsoft @activision deal and @linakhanftc @FTC challenge.
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For anyone wondering if they should ditch the golden handcuffs and pursue something less predictable, read this from who writes, I left a high-powered job at Google to launch my own startup, and I've never been happier businessinsider.com/former-google- via
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I simultaneously believe that Harry & Meghan are going to need to move on from their identities as victim royals & I'm definitely gonna watch the Netflix series and possible read his book. :-)
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SCOOP: Last summer, the debut of a16z's own content site sent shockwaves through the tech media. A year and a half later, it's stopped publishing and most of its editorial staffers have left.
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Lest you forget was running just about all of ... here's the updated org chart after Taylor's surprise exit last night, via and
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"the irony is that Apple is becoming the very thing it used to mock going back to the Apple vs. IBM days. Or as Mel Brooks so elegantly stated "We mock the thing we are to be.""
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Apple's App store has become an ad-infested imitation of its former self, which is not good for iPhone users or developers
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Just saw Von Miller walking out of the Bills locker room. He did not walk with crutches or any other assistance.
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F1 is the male equivalent of Real Housewives. These men, especially this year’s leader, so petty.
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For the past year, Insider's investigations team has been reporting on transgender people who were killed across the US and Puerto Rico between 2017 and 2021. We published our introduction to the project this morning:
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Love how the digital health reporting team, which is killing it btw, is all women. Hanging with 2/5 now
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Amazon layoffs have officially begun. Employees are being called into meetings with HR as I tweet this. has the scoop.
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A classic Insider quick scooplet from about what it's like inside Amazon right now. In a word: unnerving.
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