Truth Social's debut: a 13-hour outage, a 500K waitlist and dead signup links
Trump Media's Twitter clone launched in February 2022 iOS-only and half-built — 'almost entirely inaccessible', per The Washington Post, with 500,000 queued.
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2,000 VERÖFFENTLICHTE FÄLLE · REGELMÄSSIG AKTUALISIERTTruth Social's parent lost $31.6M in 2.5 years — its SPAC partner said merger or bust
DWAC's own SEC filing raised 'substantial doubt' about Trump Media's ability to keep operating without the merger that would take it public.
Fall lesenThreads hit 100M users in five days, then daily time sank from 21 minutes to six
Meta launched its Twitter rival skeletal - no hashtag search - 'sooner rather than later'; a week after peak, Similarweb saw time spent down to six minutes.
Fall lesenSumUp paid $317M for Fivestars to turn card readers into a US SMB platform
European Square rival SumUp made its first US acquisition, paying $317M in cash and stock for loyalty network Fivestars as physical retail reopened.
Fall lesenRailsr, once valued near $1B, sold to insiders and put into administration
Embedded-finance pioneer Railsr — $185M raised, once worth nearly $1B — entered administration under an investor consortium after a down round to about $250M.
Fall lesenPorch paid $76.5M cash plus $10M guaranteed-double stock for mortgage SaaS Floify
Insurtech Porch paid $76.5M cash plus $10M in stock — guaranteed to double by 2024 — for Floify, to reach homebuyers at the mortgage application.
Fall lesenYe moved to buy Parler, a 'censorship-free' network down to 50,000 daily users
Parlement had courted buyers for 50,000-DAU Parler, one calling the price wildly inflated; then Ye — banned by Instagram and Twitter — moved to buy it.
Fall lesenParadigm raised $2M betting swarms of AI agents belong inside spreadsheets
Anna Monaco's YC startup gives each spreadsheet cell an AI agent that pulls from vetted data sources, with early users at Bain, McKinsey and Google
Fall lesenOpenAI nearly killed ChatGPT, then released it free — 1 million users in five days
Built as an RLHF tool with beta testers shrugging, ChatGPT shipped as a free tweet-link demo on Nov 30, 2022 — and hit 1 million users in five days.
Fall lesenOnlyFans moved to ban the explicit content that built it, to appease its banks
With banking partners demanding change and a $1B valuation fundraise stalled over its adult content, OnlyFans announced a ban on sexually explicit posts.
Fall lesenNestlé's $2.6B Aimmune bet flopped: world's only peanut allergy drug up for sale
Two years after paying $2.6B for Aimmune Therapeutics, Nestlé is exploring strategic options for Palforzia after lower-than-expected uptake among doctors
Fall lesenMeta bet a standalone app could catch Twitter faltering and shipped Threads (interview)
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri tells The Verge that Twitter's Musk-era volatility opened a window worth a risky standalone bet: Threads.
Fall lesenMayflower, ProMare and IBM's crewless ship, crossed the Atlantic then diverted to Halifax
ProMare and IBM's AI-piloted vessel crossed the Atlantic crewless, then diverted to Halifax with computer and electrical faults, towed the last 300 km.
Fall lesenLoop's reusable pilots died everywhere but France — regulation brought it back
Loop's North America, Japan and UK pilots shut by 2021; in France, a reuse law plus 50-product store ranges lifted return rates from 15 to 80 percent.
Fall lesenKeel raises $6M to let operators own the ops stack their ERP never fit
Three Echo pharmacy operators who scaled to $80M revenue on hand-built tools raised a $6M seed led by Earlybird and LocalGlobe for an open-source ops platform.
Fall lesenIvella raised $3.5M to replace joint accounts with an auto-split couples card
Backed by YC and Anthemis, Ivella links a couples' debit card to two individual accounts and splits every charge by a ratio the pair sets in advance
Fall lesenInstagram's Reels-first pivot to beat TikTok drew a 110K-signature user revolt
Head Adam Mosseri made Reels the only video format and favored recommended clips; users led by Kylie Jenner demanded Instagram stop becoming TikTok.
Fall lesenFlexport's founder ousted his hand-picked CEO Dave Clark and reclaimed the job
Ryan Petersen fired ex-Amazon exec Dave Clark a year into the job over secret hiring and leases, then praised his $1.3B Deliverr purchase days later
Fall lesenFacebook renamed itself Meta to anchor its identity on an unbuilt metaverse
Weeks after the Haugen leaks, Facebook Inc became Meta, split reporting into apps and future platforms, and moved to ticker MVRS from December 1, 2021.
Fall lesenDimeADozen turned ChatGPT prompts into $39 reports and sold for $150K after seven months
Two founders spent under $200 and four days wrapping pre-written ChatGPT prompts into a $39 idea-validation report — then sold the side hustle for $150,000.
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