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...SoftBank’s Vision Fund has been accused of deliberately “destroying” a Gen Z-focused social media company it once valued at more than $1bn to safeguard its reputation as an investor amid a probe by regulators...
...In 2021, SoftBank’s Son was so taken by the pitch for the Gen Z app that he “wanted to meet within 48 hours and offered a $500mn investment”, Shafi has claimed — five times what the founder had suggested...
...Joe Miller Yeah....
...Mentioned in this podcast: SoftBank’s Gen Z social media bust: was IRL the next Facebook or a fraud?...
...Just under 40 per cent of budding lawyers in the so-called Generation Z cohort — defined as being born between 1995 and 2012 — said they would like to join one of the US’s largest 200 firms, down from almost...
...Igor Strelkov, but the authorities must realise that with such actions they are introducing even more discord into the patriotic community of a country at war,” Alexander Pelevin, a writer known as a “Z-poet...
...But with Gen Z, a new global gender divide is emerging with potentially far-reaching consequences. Take a break from the news “Dog-face”....
...A meet-cute that turns into an eventful first date, director Raine Allen-Miller’s first feature doesn’t exactly deviate from the usual rules of romcom....
...Sabina Miller, director of buying at UK homewares store Heal’s, says she has noticed a growing appreciation of design among this age group....
...Despite the seven (sometimes eight) figure deals, the median Harlem sales price was just $627,500 in the third quarter of 2023, according to Jonathan Miller, of real-estate appraisal company Miller Samuel...
...The vehicle shown is covered in pro-Russian graffiti and the Z logo. Nikitin declined to answer other questions about the goal of the operation....
...In addition, Russia has deployed its own information operations, such as spoofing the tracking data of commercial ships to create the impression of a 65km-long Russian pro-war Z symbol in the Black Sea....
...Bud Light has been battling another challenge: it lags both Corona and Modelo among beers favoured by Gen Z consumers, a Cowen survey found last year....
...and founder of Gen Z VCs, Meagan Loyst, and from the FT’s Hannah Murphy, who first diagnosed the LinkedIn vibeshift. Do listen — and learn how to grow your network, reach and 😎....
...The last time Scott Z Burns wrote a piece of speculative fiction about a global catastrophe, his vision proved prophetic....
...“We bring a different context to the art we show,” Miller says....
...The towns of eastern Ukraine, largely abandoned by civilians, were bustling with soldiers, the FT’s Christopher Miller observed on a recent reporting trip to Slovyansk....
...Blackstone Credit has appointed Abby Miller as chief accounting officer and treasurer of the Blackstone Private Credit Fund and Blackstone Secured Lending Fund....
...But statement belts are making their way back into wardrobes, part of a revival of 90s and Y2K styles that have proved popular with Gen Z....
...Miller is among the converts. “I didn’t want a Peloton. My wife bought it. I wanted nothing to do with it,” he says. But within months, he was hooked....
...And trying to make reading cool for Gen-Z. I don’t know. It doesn’t sound like a bad thing. I’m curious. Fred StudemannNo, no, it’s all right. And to be encouraged, I think....
...“Generation Y and Z in particular have high expectations of comfortable and easily understandable products without wanting to commit themselves for a long time.”...
...Max Brooks’s lauded World War Z (2006) dealt with a plague that originates in China and spreads rapidly, turning people into superstrong, flesh-craving zombies....
...Millennials and their younger “Gen Z” peers are in some ways perfectly positioned for the age of remote work and simpler living....
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