Month: January 2023

All I want for 2023 are new smart home interfaces

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The new Matter-ready Mui Board 2nd Gen will arrive later this year. | Image: Mui Labs The smart home has had an interface challenge that goes back to its earliest days with The Clapper. When it comes to simple things, such as turning on your smart lights or adjusting the temperature in your home, voice … Read more

Tesla falls short of its goal of growing 50 percent in 2022

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla delivered just over 1.3 million vehicles in 2022, missing its goal of achieving 50 percent growth year-over-year. The company needed to hit approximately 1.4 million deliveries to meet its target, indicating that transportation and logistics challenges continue to plague the EV company Tesla said it delivered 405,278 … Read more

Product-led growth and profitability: What’s going on?

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Among public tech companies, “product-led growth (PLG) companies — those who educate and convert buyers with product rather than sales and marketing (SLG) — operate at about 5% to 10% less profitability than sales-led motions,” venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz highlighted in a blog post. This data point may be specific to the moment we are … Read more

Fintech predictions and opportunities for 2023

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Victoria Treyger Contributor Share on Twitter Victoria Treyger is a managing director at Felicis Ventures. It’s been quite an eventful year. Fintech has fallen a long way from the highs of 2021, and while 2022 was largely about the reset of the funding environment, 2023 is going to be a year of recalibration for fintech … Read more