The Brutalist Report

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• VW bails on its plan for a $2.1B EV plant in Germany [817d]
• When predatory investors damage your chances of success [817d]
• Pudgy Penguins’ approach may be the answer to fixing NFTs’ revenue problems [817d]
• VC Office Hours: How data can help improve social impact investing [817d]
• Two large equity funds launched this week. What gives? [817d]
• TechCrunch+ Roundup: How to pitch 7 VCs, building AI moats, immigration law Q&A [817d]
• Startups may have trouble finding their enterprise footing [817d]
• BeReal pushes back at report that it’s losing steam, says it now has 25M daily users [817d]
• How to pitch me: 7 investors discuss what they’re looking for in September 2023 [817d]
• Google Pixel Event 2023: Pixel 8, Watch 2 and everything else we expect [817d]
• So what happened to Blue Apron? [817d]
• Why product equity has become a business imperative for the future of digital products [817d]
• X (Twitter) has paid almost $20M to creators, CEO says [817d]
• Elon Musk’s X headed for ‘rule of law’ clash with EU, warns Twitter’s former head of trust & safety [817d]
• Three Arrows Capital co-founder Zhu arrested in Singapore airport, sentenced four months in prison [817d]
• Pitch Deck Teardown: Point.me’s $10M Series A deck [817d]
• YC, OpenAI and the trough of disillusionment [817d]
• Discord is working to resolve a widespread outage caused by ‘unusual traffic spikes’ [817d]
• WestBridge seeks to buy stake in India’s Meesho [817d]
• Apple revamps iCloud.com with more features for drive, mail and notes [817d]
• SpaceX’s defense-focused Starshield satellite internet business lands first contract [818d]