Quick Reads

Google launched reCAPTCHA v3 which doesn’t need any inputs from the user. It has been almost 5 years and reCAPTCHA v3 is yet to be hacked.

Apple had a phygital strategy in 2007 even before the term phygital was coined. It was a rather fruitful partnership with Starbucks.

Seeing Fi being mentioned in #LinkedInTopStartups and laying off 10% of workforce on the same day, makes one wonder about the criteria of this list.

“Speech to Text” has been here forever, but the approach of SaaS products to the “Freemium to Premium” model is broken.

BuzzFeed is using AI to create quizzes. Although BuzzFeed’s stock is trading at less than a dollar, quizzes are not going anywhere.

Over 10 years in the making, $1.4B funding, $11B valuation, and $150M ARR, but still Airtable had to layoff over 50% of their workforce since Dec’22

Pokemon Go still has 5M DAU and 80M MAU. It is important now because it is built on Unity engine which has plans for an “install tax”.

One can mention any fake company, fake role, fake college, or fake degree on LinkedIn without any verification. LinkedIn doesn’t care.

There are so many incentives for Indian startups that it has become difficult to keep track of them. This is where SubsidyX helps.

Imagine going to a store and picking up a water bottle for free or going to a mall where everything is free. FreeWater is the road to that.