When you're a sub 250k rev consumer product and some investors are telling you to raise 20m and you're contemplating it... You don't need a CFO. You need a shrink.

I never saw that coming 🤓

This

Scoop. I broke the news that they were building this (before FB wanted to talk about it), and here I am breaking the news that it's shutting down (guess who didn't respond to a request for comment). Meta/FB, forever in an identity crisis. tip Techmeme

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Very sad for London media

Late to this conversation, but a quick thought... When a young PR pro hounds a reporter, it's likely because they are being hounded by a bad manager or client. It takes years of experience to feel comfortable pushing back on a pitch angle that you know won't work, or to say

There was shortage of talk about France becoming the next AI "superpower" last week at VivaTech. AI was everywhere. AI firm H raised $220m *seed*. Govt talked up France's prowess in AI. The catch? It's not happening without some help from US Big Tech. cnb.cx/4c2XhOT

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The IT outage does not appear to have affected the PR industry, who have sent me about 500 different hot takes about CrowdStrike today.

And to think, some U.S. VCs call access to healthcare socialism!

Hi The Times and The Sunday Times. One of your columnists, Matthew Parris, writes that PIP is for people “medically unfit to work.” This isn’t remotely true. PIP is a non-means tested benefit to pay for the extra costs of disability. Will your editors correct it? Thanks. thetimes.com/comment/column…

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Austerity 2.0 is not the answer—it will lead to another decade of stagnation. The household budget analogy of "balancing the books" must be scrapped. Invest in growth!

🚨Little scoop here: an investing app backed by Peter Thiel has shut down in UK despite its $40m raise just 2 years ago uktech.news/news/investmen…

In high school we had an expression for this. “No shit, Sherlock” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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