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If you’re wondering what our Spotify Wrapped listening personalities are, you’re in luck. See below. Have a good end of November – on to the last month of the year! — Christina and It came

TechCrunch’s top 3

• #SpotifyWrapped: If you were like most of us TechCrunchers today, you found out what Spotify had to say about your listening trends throughout the year. Sarah writes that in addition to listing your most-streamed songs, Spotify Wrapped 2022 tried to guess your mood: Christine is “The Maverick” and Haje is “The Time Traveler,” in case you want to know.
• More layoffs: Food delivery companies continue to struggle. DoorDash is the latest to announce it will lay off 1,250 employees in a bid to cut operating expenses, Aisha reports.
• Turns out you can have some nice things: We liked Mary AnnThe well-made story of ResortPass, a company that gives people the ability to lay poolside at a five-star resort without having to stay there. The company’s recent $26 million cash injection includes celebrities and likely five-star loungers Jessica Alba and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Startups and VCs

Today, crypto exchange Kraken announced that it was laying off 1,100 employees. The announcement came from a company blog post, alexander reports. The news that Kraken is reducing its workforce – and therefore its costs – comes as no surprise, given a generally bleak macroeconomic climate and even worse climates in the land of crypto. Speaking of crypto countries, Sarah reports that Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin project, TBD, is killing his “Web5” branding project. Meanwhile, the Magic: The Gathering creator explained to Devin why he put a paper game on the blockchain.

Outside of the crypto world, it was a good day for new funds — Christina reports that New Fare Partners is the latest female-led VC to close the first fund, and Katherine has a story today on Iterative launching its second fund targeting Southeast Asia-based startups.

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— Tenacious in Tobago

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In Airbnb’s new life, he plays the role of a real estate agent. The vacation home rental giant is now helping renters find an apartment so they can Airbnb, Ivan writing. Pretty interesting considering that Airbnb and its hosts have gotten into trouble in the past for listing properties without permission from owners and, in some cases, the city government.

Speaking of things you’re allowed to do in cities, brian reports that “San Francisco police can now use robots to kill”. The city’s board of supervisors passed the proposal that will allow robots to be used only “in extreme circumstances to save or prevent further loss of innocent life,” he wrote.

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