Issue #3

by Chakshu

Hi Readers👋🏻,

Welcome to the new issue of Decoded by Diwan.

This weekly newsletter is kind of like a brain buffet, you probably won't click into everything, but it's highly likely to find an interesting or insightful link that either delights or helps you learn something new. 

Join the community of intellectual minds! Cheers🥂

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Newsworthy 📰

1. Apple announces MacBook Pros with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips

2. More universities are banning TikTok from their campus networks and devices

3. Amazon brings Prime shipping to more third-party sites on January 31st

4. Shein is reportedly talks to raise up to $3 billion in a move that would lead to the Chinese fast-fashion group accepting a valuation of $64 billion, down more than a third from its peak less than a year ago

5. New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern Announces Shock Resignation

6. Sequoia injects $195 million into an ever-eager seed environment

What I am Following 👀

1. Twitter’s Revenue Down 40% Year Over Year

2. A lot of fintech ‘have to fix their business models,’ say VCs who invest in fintech

3. Packy McCormick wrote about why differentiation is so important for a business

4. Discord acquires Gas, the popular app for teens to compliment each other

5. Netflix founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings announced today that he will step down after more than two decades at the company

6. The great Tesla price war is here and it could be either the sign of a looming catastrophe or a bold bet on growth

Worth Analyzing 📈

What’s up in Canada? 🍁

1. U.S. regulators approve BMO’s US$16.3-billion takeover of Bank of the West

2. BDC leads US$50M funding round for Calgary-based lithium company

3. Canadian billionaires saw wealth jump 51% during pandemic

4. Clearco co-founder Michele Romanow steps down, cuts 30% of staff

5. Lightspeed is cutting about 300 jobs

6. Best GIC Rates In Canada 2023: Comparison Of The Big 5 And Online Banks

Resources & Tools 📚

• Slidesgo - High-quality, beautiful and free PowerPoint & Google Slides templates

• Quillbot - Need to paraphrase stuff and have writer's block? Quillbot churns out paraphrased text in this site. You can pick between formal, casual and even creative modes

• Levels.fyi - Helping people build better careers by offering the industry’s best insights on salaries, negotiations, and more

Before I take your leave, I would like to recommend — 21 Mind Traps : The Ultimate Guide to your most common Thinking errors

Quote of the Day: "You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it." -Dr. Robert Anthony

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Thank you for reading and I would really appreciate your feedback & support. 🤗

Until next time,

Chakshu Diwan