Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, March 22nd, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Red Hot App Dispo is losing some big name investors and the founder is leaving the

startups board. As anticipated, Zoom goes platform. Microsoft is beginning a

soft HQ reopening, the secret sensor found inside the HomePod Mini, and

the smart startup that has cloned Amazon's biggest competitive moats to make them available

to everybody.

Here's what you missed today in the world of

tech. Remember Dispo that hot new photo social app that we were keeping our eye on as a potential next big thing.

Dispo basically made you wait until the morning before your photos developed in

quotes. It was co-founded by famous Youtuber David Dobrik.

Well, one of Dispo's major VC backers,

Spark Capital has suddenly announced it is, quote,

severing all ties with Dispo

after claims of sexual assault against a member of Dobrik's

Vlog squad arose last week. I suppose I need to back up and explain a bit.

David Dobrik has been called the Jimmy I need to back up and explain a bit.

David Dobrik has been called the Jimmy Fallon of Gen Z

for his popular YouTube videos,

which apparently focus on comedy and pranks and stunts

and the like, tens of millions of subscribers.

Nobody is one of those youtubers that has one of those multimillion dollar mansions,

that is ostensibly the scene of a lot of his videos.

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