Daily Crunch: A huge fintech exit as the week ends

Daily Crunch: A huge fintech exit as the week ends

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Tesla refutes Elon Musk’s timeline on ‘full self-driving’

Tesla refutes Elon Musk’s timeline on ‘full self-driving’

What Tesla CEO Elon Musk says publicly about the company’s progress on a fully autonomous driving system doesn’t match up with “engineering reality,” according to a memo that summarizes a meeting between California regulators and employees at the automaker. The memo,...
Betting on upcoming startup markets

Betting on upcoming startup markets

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Extra Crunch roundup: How Duolingo became an edtech leader

Extra Crunch roundup: How Duolingo became an edtech leader

The pandemic has just pushed edtech mainstream, but language-learning startup Duolingo had already spent the past decade figuring out how to build a successful edtech app. In our latest installment of the EC-1 series, Natasha Mascarenhas goes deep with the company to...