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           PLUS: Lego is going green.
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                  August 3, 2021
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                   Yesterday, Google said it plans to start making its own smartphone chips. Now, how much more interesting would it’ve been if they said they’d start making their own tortilla chips?
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                     Scooby-Doo’s genetics:
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                    The $700m startup analyzing dogs.
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                     Not an afterthought:
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                    Square buys Australia’s Afterpay for $29B.
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                     Greener bricks:
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                    Lego is turning bottles and sugarcane into pieces.
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                   Let’s do it.
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               The big idea
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                How a $700m startup plans to help dogs live longer
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                The world’s
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                dog was a 30-year-old Australian Cattle Dog named Bluey.
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                But for most dogs, the average
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                is just 10-15 years, depending on the breed. And Embark Veterinary -- a Boston-based genetics startup now valued at
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                 $700m
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                -- wants to change that.
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                , the company recently raised
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                to use DNA testing to avoid preventable illnesses and increase dog life spans by 3 years by 2030.
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                 Brothers Adam and Ryan Boyko co-founded Embark…
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                …
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                 with
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                Blue Apron founder Matt Salzberg and geneticist Dr. Spencer Wells in 2015.
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                Adam Boyko is an associate professor of biomedical sciences at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, which acts as Embark’s official research
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                 partner
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                .
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                 Here’s how Embark works:
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                 Customers buy a Breed ID kit
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                  starting
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                 at
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                  $129
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                 , swab their dog’s cheek, and send it back.
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                 Embark tests the dog’s DNA for
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                  350+
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                 breeds, including wolves, coyotes, and dingos. Its advanced kit also tests for
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                  200+
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                 .
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                 In
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                  2-4 weeks
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                 , the customer receives a full report, including any dog relatives in Embark’s database -- like 23andMe for pups.
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                 Owners can use this info to learn about where their dog came from and make healthy choices for their pet (though
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                  experts
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                 and Embark
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                 DNA testing isn’t a substitute for the vet).
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                 Embark’s research includes village dogs
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                The Boykos spent years
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                 studying
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                village dogs -- dogs that live outside and breed freely -- all over the world to better understand the history and traits of domestic dogs.
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                 For example, a high genetic diversity among village dogs in Central Asia
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                  showed
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                 they descended from the OG domesticated dogs.
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                It was out of this research that the idea for Embark grew, and its testing includes DNA from village dogs, too.
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                At the very least, customers will learn how we got from wolves to
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                Square scoops up Afterpay in the battle of BNPL
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                “Buy now, pay later” (BNPL) -- which at one point seemed to be reserved for Pelotons -- has officially reached the masses.
               </p>
               <p style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 140%; margin: 5px 0px 10px;">
                The most recent news?
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               <p style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 140%; margin: 5px 0px 10px;">
                Jack Dorsey’s Square has
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                 agreed
                </a>
                to purchase Afterpay, an Australian BNPL leader, for
                <strong>
                 $29B
                </strong>
                .
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                <strong>
                 The model lets consumers break big purchases into smaller payments, often without interest
                </strong>
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                Usage has exploded during the pandemic:
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                 <strong>
                  60%
                 </strong>
                 of consumers
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                  say
                 </a>
                 they have used BNPL
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                <li style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 140%; margin: 0 0 0 15px; padding: 0px;">
                 <strong>
                  51%
                 </strong>
                 have used it during the pandemic
                </li>
                <li style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 140%; margin: 0 0 0 15px; padding: 0px;">
                 <strong>
                  215%
                 </strong>
                 <a style="color: #d62829; text-decoration: none;">
                  increase
                 </a>
                 in YoY usage in January and February
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                The spike in usage has been matched by a flurry of activity in the space, including:
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                 Affirm’s IPO in January
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                 Klarna’s acquisitions of Hero and APPRL (and fundraising from A$AP Rocky)
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                <strong>
                 Unsurprisingly, competition is heating up
                </strong>
               </h4>
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                In a recent
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                 tweet
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                , 2PM’s Web Smith shared a timeline of Affirm’s US market share, highlighting just how crowded the space has become:
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                 Q4 2018: 78%
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                 Q1 2021: 16%
                </li>
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                <strong>
                 And it’s about to get even hotter
                </strong>
               </h4>
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                Last month, Apple announced that it’s working on a BNPL product of its own.
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                Looking at the price tag, some analysts are
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                why Square didn’t do the same when they’ve shown the ability to build products in-house (e.g., Cash App, a merchant Point-of-sale (POS) system, etc.).
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                Regardless, we agree with this
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                that it only makes sense for the acquisition to be paid out in 4 equal installments.
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                While a part of us wishes this were a story about a new Lego brick that inflicts less pain when stepped on, that’ll have to wait.
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                Recently, Lego engineers have been hard at work developing recipes for cleaner, greener bricks.
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                 The company recently announced a recycled brick prototype
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               <p style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 140%; margin: 5px 0px 10px;">
                Over the last 3 years, a
                <strong>
                 150-person
                </strong>
                team at Lego has tested
                <strong>
                 250+
                </strong>
                formulations to create a brick from recycled plastics.
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                <strong>
                 The prototype
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                , is the 1st to meet Lego’s quality and safety requirements. According to Lego, a 1-liter plastic bottle contains enough plastic to make
                <strong>
                 10
                </strong>
                2x4 bricks.
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                <strong>
                 The hard part:
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                building recycled bricks that are just as strong as the old ones.
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                Researchers have
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                 found
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                that a single Lego brick can withstand
                <strong>
                 950 lbs.
                </strong>
                of force, or the weight of
                <strong>
                 375k
                </strong>
                bricks on top of it.
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                 It’s not Lego’s 1st sustainability play
                </strong>
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                The company has said it’ll invest
                <strong>
                 $400m
                </strong>
                in sustainability through 2022.
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                 In 2018, Lego started using bio-polyethylene made from sugar cane to produce some of its softer pieces. (Does that mean there are sweet Legos?)
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                 In 2020, Lego said it’ll start eliminating single-use plastic from sets.
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                This is cool and all, but we’ll truly be impressed the day they announce that painless brick.
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                🎱
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                 That’s cool:
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                Paper bags, pool balls, and other noisy objects are recreated as “silent props” for TV and film.
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                🎥
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                 Podcast:
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                 The Ringer
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                ’s Brian Raftery
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                🏃‍♀️
                <strong>
                 That’s interesting:
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                Snails may seem slow but they look real fast compared to the speed of hair growth. See how far all kinds of things can travel in 1 minute in
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                🌌
                <strong>
                 Wild Story:
                </strong>
                More Americans are taking advantage of “dark sky tourism” to behold our night sky.
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                 Here’s
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                🦃
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                 On this day:
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                In 1946, theme park Santa Claus Land opened in Santa Claus, Indiana. Today, it’s known as Holiday World &amp; Splashin’ Safari and includes various holiday attractions -- like this Thanksgiving-themed
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                 Gobbler Getaway
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                ride.
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                ⛵
                <strong>
                 Wow:
                </strong>
                The Cardboard Boat Museum in New Richmond, Ohio,
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                 features
                </a>
                boats created specifically for the town’s annual river race. Some are pretty impressive.
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