What I read this week...
Week 99
STRATEGY & MANAGEMENT
Coinbase agrees to buy Deribit for $2.9bn in digital market’s biggest deal (FT)
Amazon offers peek at new human jobs in an AI bot world (TechCrunch)
The rise of microdramas raises the question: Was Quibi right all along? (Sherwood)
Klarna changes its AI tune and again recruits humans for customer service (CXDrive)
Car Companies Are In A Billion-Dollar Software War, And Everyone's Losing (InsideEVs)
“The clear leaders here are the companies that weren’t already locked into the old-world approach to automotive software. Tesla, Rivian, Lucid and almost all of the Chinese automakers have built ground-up systems that work without legacy bloat… GM had the most high-profile struggles, but like BMW with early iDrive, the company’s willingness to stick it out seems to have produced an organization that’s ahead of its legacy peers on software. But it remains to be seen whether the company can take its approach further down the path to true SDVs…”
Disney to open new tech-centric theme park in Abu Dhabi, 1st in West Asia (Business Standard)
“Link back to Disney case”
Sony Gives Up On Consumer Electronics...What Happened? (Logically Answered)
INDIA
Should Yes Bank wear a foreign badge? (Finshots)
Can 6,000 Cr Leap Rise to Become the OS for International Students? (AJVC)
Strategic Musings
“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” — John Kenneth Galbraith
Caught my eye…
