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It’s a yes or no question. But what if the answer isn't so simple?

Good morning! This Friday, how tech CEOs are starting to get tired of the Congressional hearings, why Deliveroo is trying to be more than a delivery company, Elon Musk has to delete one of his tweets and notaries are the hot new thing in tech.
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You get the sense Jack Dorsey is just … over it. During his appearance at yesterday's House hearing, along with Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg, Dorsey in particular seemed to have no patience for the proceedings.
Zuckerberg did most of the talking during the hearing. As Protocol's Issie Lapowsky and Emily Birnbaum wrote, he evaded some questions about extremism and denied that Facebook played a role in the Capitol riot, but also acknowledged issues on the platform.
This hearing was different from previous ones for one big reason: It was less focused on accusations of bias against conservatives, and far more concerned with how extremism and misinformation thrive on Google, Twitter and Facebook.
But it wasn't that different. There was still the endless litigation of specific bad tweets, the pointed accusations that the CEOs are bad people who run bad companies that don't care, the constant "yes or no" questions that actually don't have such simple answers.
Which brings us to the best moment of the whole thing, which was when Dorsey subtweeted the hearing mid-hearing with a yes-or-no poll, and got caught by Rep. Kathleen Rice. "Your multitasking skills are quite impressive," she told Dorsey.
Delivery companies — whether they're Amazon or Uber, Lyft or Flexport — generally fall into one of two categories. They're either a logistics company building a platform everyone can use to deliver stuff to your house, or they're going after an entire industry and just starting with delivering stuff to your house.
Deliveroo is very much going after an industry. It's right there in the first line of its IPO prospectus: "Our mission is to be the definitive online food company." As Protocol's Hirsh Chitkara writes, food delivery has been a good market for Deliveroo, especially in the last year, but the company's Galaxy Brain plan is much bigger.
But its vision isn't without big hurdles. In the here and now, the delivery business is a fickle one. Deliveroo faces some of the same risks as Uber, DoorDash and the rest:
The market hasn't been terribly bullish on companies like Uber and DoorDash so far in 2021, and it's possible that Deliveroo missed its moment to have a huge IPO. It's planning to list in London starting on April 7, and it's a race to cash out while everyone's still home.
A recent report studying voluntary increases to wages by businesses found that when Amazon raised its pay to $15 in 2018, it led to a 4.7% increase in wages for employees at other companies in the same market. The study also found no significant job losses in the community after the wage increase.
President Biden took a strong stance on China's rise to prominence:
On the 20th anniversary of Mac OS X, Imran Chaudhri told a great story about how he dealt with Steve Jobs:
Could the U.S. ban Bitcoin? Ray Dalio thinks so:
Sina Estavi compared Jack Dorsey's tweet NFT to the "Mona Lisa," and said paying $2.9 million for it was an easy decision:
That's how many AI companies Apple has acquired since 2016, according to GlobalData. It's more than any other company: Google has acquired 14 over the same span, Microsoft 12 and Facebook just nine. And yet Siri still can't reliably set a timer.
Image: Parallel
NFTs are usually talked about synonymously with digital art, but that's not actually correct. And developers are starting to broaden the definition. A new game called Parallel — which is still pretty early in development, but sounds a bit like a dystopian, digital Magic: The Gathering — will have NFTs baked into the gameplay and is selling NFT cards ahead of launch. Imagine, say, Fortnite skins you can buy, but it's only you who gets to wear them. Parallel's going to make a fortune, isn't it?
A recent report studying voluntary increases to wages by businesses found that when Amazon raised its pay to $15 in 2018, it led to a 4.7% increase in wages for employees at other companies in the same market. The study also found no significant job losses in the community after the wage increase.
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