Buying Teslas With Bitcoin | Trump’s Social Struggle | Microsoft Courts Discord

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is granting bitcoin new physical world buying powers. We’re also looking into Donald Trump’s efforts to get back onto a social media platform—either by buying or building one—and at Microsoft’s bid for Discord. Don’t miss our interview with Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel on what’s next for the company and its mRNA technology.

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A large container ship has been stuck in the Suez Canal for hours, forcing maritime traffic to grind to a halt in one of the world’s busiest waterways. 

Robinhood has filed confidential paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a public stock offering. 

Top Take-Aways

Elon Musk announced Tesla cars can be bought with bitcoins, which the manufacturer will retain rather than convert to dollars—a move further boosting the cryptocurrency’s price.

Former president Donald Trump has been mulling a return to social media as soon as he was deplatformed by the main Silicon Valley giants. And before considering building his own social media network, he tried to buy one.

Ellevest founder and CEO Sallie Krawcheck was faced with skepticism when she launched her women-focused investment platform, but she’s now celebrating the milestone of $1 billion in assets under management.

Softbank-backed digital convenience store GoPuff has raised $1.15 billion in capital as it races to compete in the red-hot delivery wars against larger rivals like DoorDash, Postmates and Instacart.

Popular chat app Discord is being courted by a number of bidders including Microsoft, a source told Forbes, offering more than $10 billion as the startup’s founders approach billionaire status.

TuSimple filed a registration to list shares in an initial public offering on Nasdaq. The U.S.-Chinese developer of self-driving technology for commercial trucks is among the first autonomous tech startups to do so–and without taking the SPAC route.

After its junior bankers complained about working “100 hours” a week, Goldman Sachs is now enforcing Saturdays off for its bankers, in what has deemed the “Saturday rule.” But the Wall Street giant has more work to do to appeal to a new generation of workers.

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