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“The ability to get people hooked and keep them engaged is one of the holy grails in business. Few companies do it better than Duolingo, the world's most popular app for learning another language.” By @bzcohen https://www.wsj.com/...

2024-06-16 View on X

Wall Street Journal

How Duolingo uses streaks and notifications to keep users coming back to the app; 70% of Duolingo's 30M+ DAUs have weeklong streaks and 5M have one-year streaks

The learning app doesn't just teach languages. It harnesses the power of streaks and hooks you with perfectly timed nudges. Bluesky: @silversalty.bsky.social . X: @kushkatakia and...

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“Unless the woke mind virus, which is fundamentally anti-science, anti-merit, and anti-human in general, is stopped, civilization will never become multiplanetary” @elonmusk to @WalterIsaacson https://www.wsj.com/...

2023-09-01 View on X

Wall Street Journal

An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new Elon Musk biography details Musk's decision to buy Twitter and how his moods fluctuated wildly before the official closing

https://www.wsj.com/... David P / @the_dp@mastodon.social : “Musk's anti-woke sentiments were partly triggered by the decision of his oldest child, Xavier, then 16, to transition. ...

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The cash committed to VC firms and PE firms focused on rapidly growing companies but not yet spent is ballooning. So-called dry powder hit about $440 bn for venture capitalists and roughly $310 bn for growth-focused PE firms earlier this month. https://www.wsj.com/...

2021-12-28 View on X

Wall Street Journal

PitchBook: nearly 340 startups have privately raised money at $1B+ valuations in 2021, more than triple the total from 2020

or about one each day—have privately raised money at valuations north of $1 billion this year, more than triple the total from last year These will help feed the 571 SPACs searchin...

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A $43 bn enterprise, listing and delisting, all within a period of 30 days. Is this a joke? https://www.wsj.com/...

2021-07-29 View on X

Wall Street Journal

Sources: Didi is considering going private in order to placate Chinese authorities and compensate investors for losses using money made during its IPO

Ride-hailing giant has been contemplating delisting plan as crackdown widens and has obtained support from cybersecurity watchdog

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Mr. Zuckerberg asked Mr. Cook how he would handle the fallout from the controversy, people with knowledge of the conversation said. Mr. Cook responded acidly that FB should delete any info that it had collected about people outside of its core apps. https://www.nytimes.com/...

2021-04-27 View on X

New York Times

A look at the frayed relationship between Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook as Apple rolls out its new privacy feature for iPhones

Facebook is not happy Emily Birnbaum / Politico : Senate to lift the hood on social media algorithms Ian Sherr / CNET : Apple's M1 chip gives Mac some iPhone shine. Now we find out...

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Mr. Zuckerberg asked Mr. Cook how he would handle the fallout from the controversy, people with knowledge of the conversation said. Mr. Cook responded acidly that FB should delete any info that it had collected about people outside of its core apps. https://www.nytimes.com/...

2021-04-27 View on X

Wall Street Journal

With iPhone's privacy changes, advertisers will get more ad-performance data for ads bought through Apple than via third parties, giving its ad business an edge

Under the iPhone maker's new rules, advertisers will get more ad-performance data for ads bought through Apple than through third parties

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Wall Street has always had its rock stars. Warren Buffett's carnival-like annual meeting is nicknamed “Woodstock for Capitalists.” But Mr. Palihapitiya, a former FB Inc. executive who now has 1.4 mn Twitter followers, belongs to a new class of market. https://www.wsj.com/...

2021-03-08 View on X

Wall Street Journal

Profile of Chamath Palihapitiya, who has become a public icon of the SPAC and amateur trading booms; sources: Social Capital raised $3.7B for five SPACs in 2020

Buy! Sell! Tweet! An icon of the amateur trading masses and an evangelist for SPACs, Chamath Palihapitiya is commanding …

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Amazon Go Grocery will open in Seattle on Tue. It uses an array of cameras, shelf sensors and software to allow shoppers to pick up items and walk out without stopping to pay or scan merchandise. A/c s are automatically charged through a smartphone app. https://www.wsj.com/...

2020-02-26 View on X

GeekWire

Amazon opens Amazon Go Grocery in Seattle, its first full sized grocery store without cashiers or checkout lines

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire :

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Amazon Go Grocery will open in Seattle on Tue. It uses an array of cameras, shelf sensors and software to allow shoppers to pick up items and walk out without stopping to pay or scan merchandise. A/c s are automatically charged through a smartphone app. https://www.wsj.com/...

2020-02-25 View on X

GeekWire

Amazon opens Amazon Go Grocery in Seattle, its first full sized grocery store without cashiers or checkout lines

Amazon Go is going full grocery. — Two years after launching a chain of convenience stores without cashiers or checkout lines, Amazon is opening its first “Amazon Go Grocery” …

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This is what @SoftBank backed @CompassOffice CEO Robert Reffkin recently said, “Near-term profitability isn't a priority: 'Investors now have an incredible long-term view—20, 30, 40 years”. https://www.wsj.com/...

2019-09-26 View on X

Wall Street Journal

SoftBank-backed real estate tech startup Compass loses its COO, after departures of CFO, CTO, CMO, HR head, general counsel, and head of product over 18 months

Startup fueled by $1.5 billion from Japanese tech fund faces scrutiny following wave of executive departures

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