The week an Apple occasion and YC Demo Day collided

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This week noticed two huge occasions working in parallel: an Apple {hardware} announcement and Y Combinator’s Demo Day. Either a kind of on their very own would usually lead our visitors for the week — having them smash into one another on the identical day was … fascinating. And possibly a bit of exhausting.

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The Apple stuff: Apple’s occasion, as their occasions are likely to do, largely dominated the tech information cycle this week. Rather than flip this complete e-newsletter into one huge record of Apple issues, I’ll simply say: new iPhones, new AirPods, and a beefy new Apple Watch. Want extra phrases than that? Here’s our roundup of the information.

Y Combinator moonshots: Startups are exhausting. But each YC batch has not less than a handful of firms that appear a bit of further exhausting — the moonshots, if you’ll. From fake fish to groups that wish to reinvent flying, the Demo Day workforce rounded up a few of the wildest pitches.

Musk/Twitter drama continues: Elon Musk remains to be aiming to undo his multibillion-dollar provide for Twitter, and Twitter nonetheless desires to carry him to it. This week a Delaware decide made two choices within the ordeal: The trial won’t be delayed by a month as Musk’s authorized workforce had requested, however Musk will be allowed to “amend his counterclaim with details” disclosed by Twitter safety whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko earlier this month.

LG desires you to purchase NFTs in your TV: NFT gross sales have reportedly tanked over the last few months. Will the power to purchase/promote/commerce NFTs on LG sensible TVs be the factor that turns that round? No, no, it won’t.

Kim Kardashian’s new gig: “America’s favorite reality star is leveling up her repertoire,” writes Anita, with one other job title: non-public fairness investor. Kardashian is teaming up with Jay Sammons, previously the top of Consumer/Media/Retail on the Carlyle Group, to launch a brand new non-public fairness agency referred to as SKKY Partners.

Jeep’s EVs: Another legendary auto model is diving deep into electrical automobiles — this time it’s Jeep, which this week revealed plans to roll out three totally different EVs (the Recon, Wagoneer S, and Avenger) by 2025. The firm, notes Jaclyn, expects “EVs to compose half of its sales in North America — and all of its sales in Europe — by 2030.”

Patreon layoffs: Patreon, an organization that helps creators construct out paid membership choices, laid off staff this week. The layoffs purportedly go away Patreon with out a lot of a safety workforce, which appears … not very best?

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What’s up in TC podcast land this week? “Selling Sunset” star Christine Quinn stopped by Found to inform ’em about her new startup, the Chain Reaction crypto crew talked in regards to the newest drama at Binance, and Burnsy took a digital journey to Minnesota to place the highlight on the Minneapolis startup scene for TechCrunch Live.

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The freemium bar is shifting: Across merchandise from Slack to Google Meet to Heroku, many firms are shifting up their free tiers to supply much less. Why now? Anita explores the development.