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NFTs are being used for far more than just proving you own a JPEG on the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Union Square Ventures (USV), the 19-year-old, New York-based venture firm, has raised $275 million for its eighth early-stage fund and $350 million for its fourth opportunity fund, the firm announced in a blog post yesterday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Okra Solar walked away with the trophy and a giant check at our 2019 Shenzhen Hardware Battlefield event. It’s a moment happily eternalized in a new press release announcing the renewable energy startup’s $2.1 million new round (it’s a nice photo. I used it on this post, too). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Airbnb is going all in on the “live anywhere, work anywhere” philosophy that much of the business world has been forced to adopt, committing to full-time remote work for most employees and a handful of perks like 90 days of international work/travel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It was last year that we covered the $11.2M fundraise for Sienna Network, the ‘privacy decentralized’ startup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Thanks to the explosion of low- and no-code development tools, building web apps from scratch has become easier — and cheaper — than it once was. But sophisticated search and navigation functions can complicate the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Smallstep founder and CEO Mike Malone calls big, distributed systems his happy place, but these systems involve a lot of machine-to-machine communications, an area identity vendors haven’t been able to solve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I’ve been covering Apple in various capacities for a long time now. Over the years, I don’t know that I’ve seen an announcement from the company as unexpected and warmly received as Self Service Repair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

General Motors expects full-year 2022 expenses at Cruise, the automaker’s autonomous driving subsidiary, to be approximately $2 billion, according to GM’s chief financial officer Paul Jacobson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Online payment methods can be expensive for merchants, who have to pay between 2% and 8% of every sale to debit and credit card, ewallet and BNPL facilitators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices