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To get a roundup of \u2019s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT,<\/em> subscribe here<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n Christine is in an airport lounge and Haje is perched on the corner of a cafe bench, as the team is in transit post-Disrupt today. We miss our work besties already (\ud83d\udcaf) and are hung over (metaphorically and<\/em> literally) from an overabundance of wonderfulness this week. Enjoy Daily Crunch, and see y\u2019all next week!<\/p>\n Oh, and we know we mentioned this yesterday, but a good thing deserves to be repeated: A huge congrats to Minerva Lithium and their $100,000 Startup Battlefield win! \u2014 Christine<\/a> and Haje<\/a><\/p>\n Draymond Green, the two-time Olympic gold medalist and professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors, says he\u2019s working with well-known investors involved in the tech space. That wasn\u2019t a massive secret \u2014 Green has historically been quite public about his investments, like SmileDirectClub \u2014 but until Disrupt, he hadn\u2019t previously named his go-to investing partners, nor made explicit that he\u2019s not planning to start a fund himself, Kyle<\/a> reports. You can see all of Draymond\u2019s chat (including some interesting conversation about that video that\u2019s been floating about) with Brian<\/a>.<\/p>\n When Parker Conrad founded Rippling in 2016, the HR company initially focused on the process of onboarding employees. It has since evolved, Mary Ann<\/a> reports. Yesterday, at Disrupt, Rippling unveiled what Conrad describes as the \u201cbiggest launch\u201d of his career \u2014 its new global payroll product.<\/p>\n You know the drill \u2014 five more, count \u2019em! No, seriously, count \u2019em. We\u2019re very tired today and may have miscounted.<\/p>\n Image Credits:<\/strong> Bryce Durbin\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Dear Sophie,<\/p>\n I\u2019m an international student in the U.S. in F-1 status. I will graduate with a bachelor\u2019s degree in computer science this May and plan to apply for OPT. I want to launch a startup.<\/p>\n Can I do that with OPT? What options would I have after OPT to continue growing my company?<\/p>\n \u2014 Forward-Looking Founder<\/p>\n Three more from the TC+ team:<\/p>\n +<\/em> is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.<\/em> You can sign up here<\/em>. Use code \u201cDC\u201d for a 15% discount on an annual subscription!<\/em><\/p>\n What do you say to the company that has nearly everything? Well, Google doesn\u2019t think it has everything when it comes to its presence in India and had some choice words for some of the country\u2019s regulators. In response to yesterday\u2019s $162 million fine, Google fired back at India\u2019s competition regulators, saying that the order is a \u201cmajor setback for Indian consumers and businesses\u201d and that it \u201copens serious security risks for Indians who trust Android\u2019s security features.\u201d Manish<\/a> has more.<\/p>\n We also can\u2019t ignore this juicy piece of\u2026\ud83d\udca9that came in yesterday. With Elon Musk\u2019s deal to acquire Twitter now seemingly approaching the end, Taylor<\/a> reports that layoffs at the social media giant might now be larger than originally expected. She writes that cuts at Twitter could be up to 75%. For those counting at home, that is like 5,600 people. Not cool.<\/p>\n And we have four more for you:<\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe Top 3<\/h2>\n
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