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                  February 23, 2021
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                  TOGETHER WITH
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                   After 28 years, the masked music duo Daft Punk is calling it quits. We hope they
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                    get lucky
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                   with whatever they do
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                    around the world
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                   , but would love to hear them
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                    one more time
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                   when
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                    da funk
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                   is
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                    harder, better, faster
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                   .
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               the big idea
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                Facebook was caught lying to advertisers (again)
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                Remember when Mark Zuckerberg battled the Winklevoss Twins to determine who created Facebook?
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                The legal process uncovered messages from Zuck that said he wanted to do something (we can’t print here) to the
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                 ears
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                of the Winklevoss Twins.
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                Based on a recent drop of unredacted court filings, it looks like Scrooge McZuck has been doing the same unprintable actions to advertisers.
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                 The remarks come from a 2018 California lawsuit...
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                … which claims that Facebook “knowingly overestimated its ‘potential reach’ metric for advertisers,” writes
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                  The Verge
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                .
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                The core of the lawsuit is that the social media giant didn’t adjust for fake and duplicate accounts.
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                In one nugget from the
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                 filing
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                , Facebook told advertisers it could target 100m people aged 18-34 years old in the US even though there are only 76m people in that age group.
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                 Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg knew about the issue
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                Per
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                 The Verge
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                , one Facebook product manager told Sandberg that some revenue should “never [have been] made given the fact that it’s based on the wrong data.”
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                Another employee added the process was “deeply wrong,” but Facebook neglected to make a fix, saying it would have a significant impact on revenue.
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                 3rd time’s the harm
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                Antitrust expert
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                 Matt Stoller
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                notes that Facebook has already been busted on 2 separate occasions for lying to advertisers:
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                  “Pivot to video”
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                 : In
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                  2016
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                 , Zucky McClaims told the world that Facebook was going all in on video, and it misled advertisers about video metrics to boost the program.
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                  Measurement tool:
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                 At the end of 2020, Facebook told advertisers that its “conversion lift
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                  tool
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                 ” (which measures ad performance) overestimated campaign results.
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                While Facebook has largely avoided
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                repercussions for its activities, Stoller believes the tide is turning:
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                  Australia
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                 is taking a tough (albeit
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                  Canada and the UK
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                 have called Facebook a
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                 actor for blocking Australians from seeing news
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                  In the US
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                 , Facebook faces an antitrust
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                  suit
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                In sum, Facebook is facing attacks on its
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                 ears
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                business from regulators the world over.
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                  Coinbase to $100B:
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                 The cryptocurrency exchange was
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                 at just over $100B in the private markets, meaning it could see the highest-valued IPO of any tech company since Facebook.
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                  Creatio stops bootstrapping:
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                 The Boston-based low-code automation platform for the CRM space
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                  raised
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                 $68m after bootstrapping since its founding in 2011.
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                  Spotify is launching an audio ad network.
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                 This is a big monetization
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                  piece
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                 for the company’s recent binge on podcast tech and content.
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                  Discovery+ heats up:
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                 The parent company of -- prepare yourself -- Property Brothers, Guy Fieri, and Shark Week announced its new streaming service will reach 12m
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                 by March, up from 5m in December.
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                  Luxury giant LVMH
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                 stake in Jay-Z’s Ace of Spades champagne brand, which was launched in 2006. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. (For a history of LVMH, check out this Twitter
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                  WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann
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                 is nearing a
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                  settlement
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                 with SoftBank that would pave the way for the real estate startup to go public. Neumann will sell his shares in the firm for $500m (half the original terms) to move on.
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                You know the satisfying feeling you get when a toaster pops up two slices of beautifully crisp, golden-brown toast? That’s probably how Toast is feeling now.
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                The Boston-based leader in software and hardware tools for restaurants was getting burnt last spring, but now it’s buttering up for an IPO.
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                 Toast’s turnaround wasn’t fun
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                In April 2020, Toast CEO Chris Comparato
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                a 50% staff reduction through layoffs and furloughs after restaurant sales dropped 80% in March.
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                Toast at
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                 $20B
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                .
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                 Unfortunately, the rest of the industry is still getting burned
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                In December, the NRA -- “R” as in “Restaurant” -- shared
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                with congressional leadership that were quite troubling:
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                 In October, 87% of restaurants reported a
                 <strong>
                  36%
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                 drop in revenue year-over-year on average
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                 of restaurant owners said they expect sales to be even worse between December 2020 and February 2021
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                 17% of restaurants -- more than
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                  110k
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                 -- are closed permanently or for the long term
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                Toast’s IPO isn’t a done deal. It’s also reportedly considering a sale or -- no surprise here -- a SPAC.
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                Whatever happens, we’re raising one glass to Toast for its remarkable achievements, and another to
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                the restaurant industry for brighter days ahead.
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                MSCHF -- the viral internet art group -- has a new drop tomorrow called “Spot’s Rampage.”
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