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| To get a roundup of TechCrunch's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. I interrupt your regularly scheduled Daily Crunch to announce that your regularly scheduled writer, one Alex Wilhelm, is out sick today. If the effects of his second shot subside by tomorrow, then he'll be back with his commas. In the meantime, I have taken the reins and hope to be at least half as spirited. Let's get on with it, shall we? — Henry | |  Image Credits: Lemonade / file photo | | |
TechCrunch Top 3 Lemonade 'DGAF': Activist short seller Carson Block wrote a letter to the CEO of insurance marketplace Lemonade saying that he "accidentally discovered" a security flaw that exposed customers' account data. Block told Zack that his firm is shorting the company's stock "because it is clear Lemonade does not give a fuck about securing its customers' sensitive personal information." Strong words! Google's gotta pay in Italy: Natasha writes about the most recent European trouble Google finds itself in. Italy's antitrust watchdog group slapped the company with a €100 million (or about US$123 million) for its Android Auto practices. Specifically, the AGCM says Google has prevented Enel X Italia, the maker of electric car charging app JuicePass, from inclusion in the platform. Google says it didn't do anything wrong. Shrug. Space adventures afoot: Japanese entrepreneur and billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be passing the moon aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon by 2023. But he can't wait to leave Earth. So to whet his space-travel whistle, Maezawa will head to the International Space Station as a client of Space Adventures on a Russian Soyuz rocket set to take off from Kazakhstan on December 8. And he's taking his production assistant, Yozo Hirano, with him. That's dedication. | | | |
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| Software startups that fail to reach product-market fit simply fade away, memorialized only by an inactive Twitter account and perhaps a stenciled sign in a now-vacant co-working space. All product-led growth companies will reach the stage where their founders must figure out how to crack the code that allows them to vault to the next level and become a billion-dollar company. That’s where the “hamburger” go-to-market comes in. The bottom bun is bottom-up GTM, the top bun represents enterprise sales and your product? That’s the meat. (Extra Crunch is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. You can sign up here.) Read More | |  Image Credits: ivan101 / Getty Images | | |
Big Tech Inc. Google Analytics is preparing for life after cookies by using its machine learning systems to model user behavior when cookies are not available. During her first interview as the new head of Google Analytics, Vidhya Srinivasan tells Frederic that this is the only way to go. Amazon's back with its Echo Buds, and this time, Brian's not as unimpressed as he was last time. Progress! Read his review here. When Discord launched its own Clubhouse-like voice event rooms, Stage Channels, in March, it set the stage for connecting folks to live events beyond their own communities. Today, the company announced all the pieces are in place to start helping people discover live events and the servers that host them. Think open mic nights and book clubs, says Taylor. Elon Musk, the self-dubbed Technoking, is backpedaling on the company's stance about bitcoin, writes Kirsten and Rebecca. The Tesla CEO announced yesterday in a tweet that he has suspended purchases of its electric vehicles with the cryptocurrency. The shift comes just weeks after the Tesla CFO said the company believes in the longevity of bitcoin, despite its volatility. Acquisition corner: Walmart acquires virtual try-on startup Zeekit and PayPal buys returns logistics business Happy Returns. | | | |
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