The week an Apple occasion and YC Demo Day collided • TechCrunch

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This week noticed two huge occasions operating in parallel: an Apple {hardware} announcement and Y Combinator’s Demo Day. Both a kind of on their very own would usually lead our site visitors for the week — having them smash into one another on the identical day was … attention-grabbing. And possibly slightly exhausting.

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The Apple stuff: Apple’s occasion, as their occasions are likely to do, largely dominated the tech information cycle this week. Fairly than flip this whole publication into one huge checklist of Apple issues, I’ll simply say: new iPhones, new AirPods, and a beefy new Apple Watch. Need extra phrases than that? Right here’s our roundup of the information.

Y Combinator moonshots: Startups are laborious. However each YC batch has at the least a handful of corporations that appear slightly additional laborious — the moonshots, if you’ll. From fake fish to groups that need to reinvent flying, the Demo Day crew rounded up a number of the wildest pitches.

Musk/Twitter drama continues: Elon Musk continues to be aiming to undo his multibillion-dollar provide for Twitter, and Twitter nonetheless needs to carry him to it. This week a Delaware choose made two choices within the ordeal: The trial is not going to be delayed by a month as Musk’s authorized crew had requested, however Musk will be allowed to “amend his counterclaim with particulars” disclosed by Twitter safety whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko earlier this month.

LG needs you to purchase NFTs in your TV: NFT gross sales have reportedly tanked over the previous few months. Will the power to purchase/promote/commerce NFTs on LG good TVs be the factor that turns that round? No, no, it is not going to.

Kim Kardashian’s new gig: “America’s favourite actuality star is leveling up her repertoire,” writes Anita, with one other job title: non-public fairness investor. Kardashian is teaming up with Jay Sammons, previously the pinnacle of Client/Media/Retail on the Carlyle Group, to launch a brand new non-public fairness agency known as SKKY Companions.

Jeep’s EVs: One other legendary auto model is diving deep into electrical automobiles — this time it’s Jeep, which this week revealed plans to roll out three totally different EVs (the Recon, Wagoneer S, and Avenger) by 2025. The corporate, notes Jaclyn, expects “EVs to compose half of its gross sales in North America — and all of its gross sales in Europe — by 2030.”

Patreon layoffs: Patreon, an organization that helps creators construct out paid membership choices, laid off workers this week. The layoffs purportedly go away Patreon with out a lot of a safety crew, which appears … not preferrred?

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What’s up in TC podcast land this week? “Promoting Sundown” star Christine Quinn stopped by Discovered to inform ’em about her new startup, the Chain Response crypto crew talked concerning the newest drama at Binance, and Burnsy took a digital journey to Minnesota to place the highlight on the Minneapolis startup scene for TechCrunch Dwell.

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YC Demo Day favs: Practically 230 pitches later, which Y Combinator S22 corporations stood out to the Demo Day crew? Listed below are their favourite pitches from Day 1 and Day 2.

An important slides in your pitch deck: Reporter/former VC/resident pitch deck skilled Haje shares his insights on which of the perhaps-too-many slides in your deck are most vital.

The freemium bar is shifting: Throughout merchandise from Slack to Google Meet to Heroku, many corporations are shifting up their free tiers to supply much less. Why now? Anita explores the pattern.