Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:âą The Big Read: Pickleball is the pastâthe tech elite is obsessed with padel. ⹠Plus, an Americana-themed batch of Recommendationsâour weekly pop culture picks: âThe Americans,â âEast of Eden,â âHigh Desert Daydream,â âLonesome Dove,â USA vs. Belgium, and âThe Twilight Zone.â The yearâs midpoint is an apt moment for some studied reflection, and Iâve been thinking about how much has changed in the last six... Read more âș
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In March, we started asking our readers what was on their mind when it came to the creator economy. We got so many good questions that we decided to publish another set this month. (Read our previous Mailbag). Disagree with my answers? Weâll discuss them in The Informationâs Forum on Tuesday. You can submit more questions here! Letâs dive in. 1. How will generative AI impact the creator economy over... Read more âș
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Just a few days after appointing a new CEO for Twitter, Elon Musk is back to micromanaging Tesla. In an email to staff at the electric vehicle maker on Monday, Musk said that Tesla can make no new hires unless he personally approves them, including contractors. He told executives to send him a list of hiring requests on a weekly basis, while also cautioning them to âthink carefullyâ before submitting... Read more âș
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Whatâs the secret for brands who want to tap into the power of the creator economy? Sahil Patel, reporter for The Information, sat down to find out the answers with three experts from the creator commerce world: Kenny Gold, managing director, head of social, content and influencer, Deloitte Digital Megan Tobin, head of creator shopping marketing, LTK Karen Chimal, director of creator partnerships, IPSY Shopping Trends Post-Pandemic Patel started off... Read more âș
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In the world of the creator economy, traffic growth and brand partnerships rely on one thing: the creatorâs personal brand. Many creators have turned to experts to help them shape their brands and stand out. Laura Mandaro, managing editor of news and talent for The Information, spoke with three luminaries for their advice on developing a unique personal brand: Ian Wang, head of product, Adobe Express Skyelar Garcia, social media... Read more âș
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Organizational growth often requires global expansion. But how do companies navigate the complexity of hiring people from all over the world, taking into account various regulations, taxes and wagesâwhile creating benefit parity across the board? Jessica Lessin, founder and CEO of The Information, sat down for a virtual panel with three experts to find out what this all means for a companyâs financial strategy: Michael B. Tannenbaum, chief operating officer... Read more âș
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In February, Meta Platforms set off an explosion of artificial intelligence development when it gave academics access to sophisticated machine-learning models that can understand conversational language. Within weeks, the academics turned those models into open-source software that powered free alternatives to ChatGPT and other proprietary AI software. Free AI models are now âreasonably closeâ in performance to proprietary models from Google and ChatGPT creator OpenAI, and most software developers will... Read more âș
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In 1966, General Motors opened a new factory in a cornfield in Lordstown, Ohio, 210 miles southeast of Detroit, to manufacture top-selling Chevys and Pontiacs. When it opened, Lordstown was the most modern GM plant, to which the company soon added 26 robots. For workers, though, the plant was a brutal physical experience with a vastly accelerated assembly line. By the 1970s, the factoryâs 7,000 workers, represented by the United... Read more âș
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Samantha Whitmore has run seven marathons and six ultramarathons. Her favorite was a 44-mile rim-to-rim run of the Grand Canyon, which she and her husband have traversed four times. âYouâll come away from the experience feeling like you are capable of anything,â she said. âItâs a mental as well as physical test.â Whitmore, a machine-learning engineer who is currently working on a stealth artificial intelligence startup in San Francisco, Calif.,... Read more âș
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Hi, welcome to your Weekend.Marissa Mayer has been a mainstay of tech journalism for almost two decades, ever since she was anointed the glamorous geek goddess of Google back in its âdonât be evilâ days. Sheâs had quite a ride since then, becoming Yahoo CEO in 2012, bumping along in the role for five acquisition-heavy years, then selling the company for $4.5 billion to Verizon, where it remains in a... Read more âș
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Despite leaving Discord last year, Amber Atherton still spends many of her working hours on the social platform. The companyâs former head of communityânow a partner at early-stage venture firm PatronâAtherton builds relationships with her portfolio companies in a Discord âzen gardenâ designed for streaming lo-fi music and hosting founder-investor chats. Discord is essentially her office. The concept makes sense for Atherton, whose debut book, âThe Rise of Virtual Communities,â... Read more âș
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At SpaceX, Elon Muskâs top lieutenant Gwynne Shotwell has won a reputation as the adult in the room, able to turn Muskâs visionary ideas into commercial reality. Ad executives are hoping that former NBCUniversal ad sales chief Linda Yaccarino will play the same role at Twitter, where she was named Friday as CEO. People who know Musk and ad executives who know Yaccarinoâa 30-year veteran of both Comcastâs NBCUniversal and... Read more âș
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Bakkt, the new owner of a crypto custody and clearing provider that helps fintech companies like Public.com and Webull offer crypto trading, is removing support for 25 of the 36 tokens it offers, a spokesperson confirmed. The decision, which impacts popular tokens like uniswap and avalanche, marks the latest example of companies pulling back on crypto products in the U.S. as regulators closely scrutinize the industry. Securities and Exchange Commission... Read more âș
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This is âShow Us Everything,â a new feature from The Information Weekend, in which company founders share intimate glimpses of their everyday lives. When Lucy Guo told me she ran a 4:50 mile, I knew we were about to have very different experiences at Barryâs Bootcamp. It was a little after 8 a.m. when a black van dropped Guo off at Barryâs, the favored workout studio of Miami Beach tech... Read more âș
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Earlier this year, Marissa Mayerâsignature blond bob, talking a mile a minuteâtaught a class on how to start your own company. It had been five years since Mayer had become a startup founder herself, and she had prepared a slide deck describing the finer details of entrepreneurship. As she clicked through the presentation, her audience fidgeted in their seats. They were fourth graders. Mayer had come to her sonâs classroom... Read more âș
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Welcome back! Itâs no secret that the valuations of tech companies have fallen in the past year or so. We offer a window into just how far valuations of once high-flying startups have declined in our updated Tech IPO Tracker, which now includes estimated valuations of companies that were looking to go public as recently as last year. Since their most recent private fundraising rounds, valuations of these startups have... Read more âș
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Over the past few years, TikTok has become a viral hitmaker, sending musical artists like Lil Nas X to the top of the record charts and propelling the careers of Olivia Rodrigo and Megan Thee Stallion. Now TikTokâs parent, ByteDance, is angling to play a bigger role in these artistsâ careers, which could reduce the increasingly steep costs of licensing their music. TikTok has been pursuing dozens of artists to... Read more âș
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What do you call a visionary who fails to act on their own vision? Masayoshi Son. The SoftBank chief was a prominent advocate for artificial intelligence for at least the past six years, long before OpenAIâs ChatGPT woke the world to AIâs potential. But lately, as everyone and their dog rushes to put money into AI startups, SoftBank has been largely absent from the investment scene. Burned by last yearâs... Read more âș
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Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao, the crypto exchangeâs founder, majority owner and chair, have been exploring ways to reduce his stake in the company, two people familiar with the matter said. Zhao has been trying to sell at least some of his stake since last summer, one of the people said. And in recent weeks, since the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued Zhaoâs international crypto firm Binance for allegedly violating U.S.... Read more âș
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Meta Platforms is pouring more money into generative artificial intelligence and incorporating the technology into its products for advertisers and creators. The parent of Facebook and Instagram on Thursday unveiled an âAI Sandboxâ of three new features that use generative AI itâs been testing with a small group of advertisers. One allows users to describe their advertisement in text and view variations that play around with wording and tone, or... Read more âș
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Hungry venture capitalists inundated Rewind AI co-founder and CEO Dan Siroker the moment they caught wind of his artificial intelligence startupâs Series A plans, he wrote on Twitter last month. So he skipped the traditional fundraising process and tried something unorthodox.On April 14, he shared a link to an online form and asked investors to state âthe highest amount youâre comfortableâ paying between $200 million and $1 billion. It was... Read more âș
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