Daily Crunch: Airtable lays off 250+ as CEO cites importance of ‘being a lean organization’
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello, Happy Thursday. There is a lot of news today, much of it posting as I write this — for example, the Federal Trade Commission is now suing to block Microsoft from […]
Airtable chief revenue officer, chief people officer and chief product officer are out
As part of Airtable’s decision to cut 20% of staff, or 254 employees, three executives are “parting ways” with the company as well, a spokesperson confirmed over email. The chief revenue officer, chief people officer and chief product officer are no longer with the company. Airtable’s chief revenue officer, Seth Shaw, joined in November 2020 […]
Pitch Deck Teardown: Rootine’s $10M Series A deck
If you told me that a company that’s charging $70 per month for multivitamins would be able to raise a $10 million round, I’d demand to see the receipts, and I’d be very curious indeed to see its pitch deck. It looks like today is my lucky day! Rootine is the company, and the founders […]
Airtable, last valued at $11 billion for its no-code software, lays off over 250
Just days ago, Airtable published a memo about how laid off workers can use Airtable to search for jobs. “It’s been an unwelcome theme of 2022—layoffs,” the post said. “Each season seems to usher in a new wave of cuts. Meanwhile corporations cite similar concerns of rising inflation, the looming threat of an economic downturn […]
Ocho wants to rethink (and rebrand) personal finance for business owners
When Ankur Nagpal sold Teachable for a quarter of a billion dollars, he felt lucky. Then, he quickly felt lost when trying to navigate the financial systems of a country he wasn’t born in and learn the institutional language often only spoken fluently by the historically wealthy. It would be a few years of self-employment, […]
SUD Life appoints H.S. Prannoy as Brand Ambassador
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 8: Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance (SUD Life), a joint venture between two of India’s leading public sector banks, Bank of India and Union Bank of India, and Dai-ichi Life Holdings Japan has appointed Arjuna award-nominated badminton champion H.S. Prannoy as a Brand Ambassador. This association also marks the very first […]
Market leader in International Beauty Retail and Distribution in India, Baccarose launches a fragrance series in collaboration with HRX by Hrithik Roshan
The Partnership will see a strategic alliance & collaboration effort to drive the locker room strategy for HRX franchise. Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 8: Baccarose, a leading player for luxury beauty products in India, announces its collaboration with HRX, India’s first homegrown fitness brand- jointly owned by Hrithik Roshan and Exceed Entertainment. HRX & Baccarose […]
The Etiquette of Giving : PRESTIGE IDENTITY
Harshada Samudre, Founder, Prestige Identity How you execute your corporate gifting strategy is one of the keys to maintaining a better and stronger relationship with your clients or your own employees National: 8th December 2022: Corporate gift giving is serious business. As part of a well-considered program, it can help establish or enhance critical relationships […]
In uncertain times, B2B sales teams must put value front and center
Ketan Karkhanis Contributor Share on Twitter Ketan Karkhanis is the executive vice president and general manager of Sales Cloud at Salesforce. As uncertainty pervades the economy, maintaining profitability ratios and increasing revenue has never been more important. This decade is showing signs of becoming one of the most challenging landscapes to grow a business as […]
Komi, a landing page tool for content creators, raises $5M seed round
Komi, a personalized website page builder tool for influencers and celebrities to create and customize a landing page to promote their projects, today closed a $5 million seed round led by Contour Venture Partners. Launched in October 2021, Komi is designed to provide content creators, musicians, athletes, celebrities and other creative talent and personalities alike […]
