Amazon dives deeper into healthcare with its $3.9 billion purchase of One Medical

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Good hello again! It’s Thursday – heatwaves are heatwaves, and all of TechCrunch is excited for a fun and engaging robotics event today. That’s not all that’s going on, however. We’ve had 70 new stories on the site since our last newsletter, which means we’ve learned about all kinds of wild and wonderful happenings in our world of startups and business creation. It was extremely difficult to select the best of the best for the newsletter, but we did our best. Enjoy! — Christina and haje

TechCrunch’s top 3

• Amazon grabs a stethoscope: Amazon has shown its continued interest in healthcare by announcing its intention to acquire leading healthcare provider One Medical for $3.9 billion. Ingrid writes that the details are a bit thin as to how One Medical will integrate with Amazon, but he has people on twitter wondering what the market giant will do next. And that’s exactly the kind of thing alexander is good at. He dives into the case to let us know just what Amazon gets for its billions.

• someone has an eye on you: pot holder brings us an update on Indian edtech giant Byju, which you might remember laid off hundreds of employees a month ago. Now it looks like he will have some legal issues to contend with. A lawmaker calls for an investigation into the company’s finances.

• It’s not goodbye forever: Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia made waves today, announcing he is stepping down from his role after 10 years to spend time with his family and see what piques his interest, Kyle reports. Gebbia will remain on the company’s board of directors in an advisory role.

Startups and VCs

Today has been a cavalcade of robotics. The articles that particularly caught our attention are brianthe story, asking if universities are doing enough to encourage robotics startupsand Kirstenpiece on Agility’s next Digit robot, which will have a face and hands. Also, don’t miss brian‘s Actuator newsletter, which covers what’s happening in the world of robotics. The most recent issue came out yesterday.

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We were pleased to see TextExpander – which has been around for a hot minute but has started so far – raise $41 million round of financing, such as Ingrid reports. The company speeds up business communications by creating extensible and modular text macros.

The other story not to be missed today is Anita and Natasha Mit is WTF is a 409A – a crucial element that you must understand if you are to hope to understand startup valuations in the United States!

• New Kenyan venture capital fund: After spending years in London connecting Kenyans in the diaspora with investment opportunities back home, Njeri Muhia sought greater challenge by founding Kenyan venture capital firm FrontEnd Ventures supports local founderswriting Anne.

• come fly with me: Chartering a private plane will never be cheap, but that doesn’t mean it can’t get cheaper. AeroVanti Air Club Announces $9.75 Million Series A to offer lower hourly rates to club members, Frederic reports.

• Goodbye credit scores: TomoCredit wants credit scores to be a thing of the past and increase $22 million at a $222 million valuation to reach this goal, Mary-Ann reports.

• You get a raise!: Talent Management HR Technology Company 15Five raises $52 million to improve its own performance, reports Ingrid.

• I see what you did there: Transform mushrooms into meaty delights, Meati Foods raises $150 million to expand operations, Christina reports.

Growth Cheat Code: Use Split Hiring to Stick to Plan While Cutting Costs

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As the winter winds begin to blow, major tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Lyft have each instituted hiring freezes.

Similarly, early-stage startups are under pressure to reduce burnout while preserving forward momentum, but “split hiring is growth cheat code” when used strategically, says Teja Yenamandra, co-founder and CEO of Gun.io.

“There is now much less competition for the talent you hire, and you may be able to lock in a hire that was unaffordable a few months ago.”

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Big Tech inc.

If you came here for Tesla news, you’re in luck. The mobility, climate, and even crypto teams were in full coverage mode from the electric automaker, giving you plenty of news to rev your engines.

Harris and Kirsten immersed in the company’s quarterly results, writing, respectively, on Tesla’s success in the solar game and his quarterly decline in profits. Let’s move on to cryptography, Lucas reports how Elon Musk not only reveals that Tesla owns Dogecoinbut also that society sold 75% of its Bitcoin holdings. And finally, Rebecca writes that Tesla is raising the cost of its self-driving softwarein the meantime Jaclyn writes that the company is on the right track to launch its battery electric truck in 2023.

Now some non-Tesla news. The first standing Jagmeet reports that Amazon is watching India as the next place to bring its Project Kuiper satellite internet business.

During this time, many companies hit the pause button for a number of different things. One of the best stories from yesterday was Andrewpiece on Google takes a two-week hiring break then slow down for the rest of the year.

And it’s not the only one: Kyle covers The decline in GitHub hiringwhile Paul written on Just Eat Takeaway reduces its size in France. Rebecca cover both Lyft layoffs amid a shutdown of its in-house car rental scheme and the UK’s Drivers and Couriers Union App parking their vehicles to strike in response to files that have been leaked about Uber. To finish, Katherine reports on Zipmex suspends withdrawals of its digital asset exchange.