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Extra Crunch roundup: 2 VC surveys, Tesla’s melt up, The Roblox Gambit, more
Thanks very much for reading Extra Crunch this week. I hope we can all look forward to a nice, boring weekend with no breaking news alerts.
Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020
I've tried to gather a sample of stories that taught me something new (which means this top 10 list betrays my ignorance).
Extra Crunch roundup: ‘Nightmare’ security breach, Poshmark’s IPO, crypto boom, more
The rest of the world may be slowing down as we prepare for Christmas and New Year's, but we are not taking our foot off the gas.
Extra Crunch roundup: A fistful of IPOs, Affirm’s Peloton problem, Zoom Apps and more
DoorDash, Affirm, Roblox, Airbnb, C3.ai and Wish all filed to go public in recent days, which means some venture capitalists are having the best week of their lives. Tech companies that go public capt
Extra Crunch roundup: Inside DoorDash’s IPO, first-person founder stories, the latest in fintech VC and more
One of my favorite series of Monty Python sketches is built around the concept of surprise: Chapman: I didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition. [JARRING CHORD] [Three cardinals burst in] Ca
Extra Crunch roundup: B2B marketplaces, edtech M&A, breaking into the $1M ARR club
I’ve worked at TechCrunch for a little over a year, but this was one of the hardest weeks on the job so far. Like many people, I’ve been distracted in recent days. As I write this, I have
Extra Crunch Friday roundup: Edtech funding surges, Poland VC survey, inside Shift’s SPAC plan, more
A look back at Extra Crunch's top stories over the last few days.
Four views: How will the work visa ban affect tech and which changes will last?
Four TechCrunch staffers discuss the potential impacts of the government's decision to halt all new work visas through the end of the year.
Four perspectives: Will Apple trim App Store fees?
The fact that Apple takes a 30% cut of subscriptions purchased via the App Store isn’t news. But since the company threatened to boot email app Hey from the platform last week unless its develop
Trump’s worker visa ban will hit Silicon Valley hard
"This would be a blow to very early-stage tech companies trying to get off the ground."
‘Thinking out loud’ with TechCrunch senior editor Alex Wilhelm
"TechCrunch as an organization is now doing three things at once. We've always done news and events. And now we're doing something a little bit different at the same time."
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