Spotify Layoffs, Crypto Rally and Defense Tech
Bloomberg Tech
Bloomberg
4.4 • 70 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow break down Spotify's steepest job cuts this year. Plus, Bitcoin tops $42,000 for the first time since April of 2022, and Anduril unveils a tiny, reusable fighter jet to blow up drones.
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| 0:00.0 | Join global business leaders and investors at the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit, returning to Singapore on July 31st. |
| 0:09.0 | Take part in solutions driven discussions on how to drive business value and unlock opportunity |
| 0:14.8 | while remaining nimble in times of change and greater ESG accountability. |
| 0:19.5 | Learn more at Bloomberg Live.com slash sustainablebiz Singapore. That's Bloomberg Live.com slash Sustainable Biz Singapore. |
| 0:24.0 | That's Bloomberg Live.com slash sustainable Biz Singapore. |
| 0:28.0 | From the heart of where innovation, money and power collide in Silicon Valley and beyond, |
| 0:37.0 | this is Bloomberg Technology with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow. Hayden at Ludd Lo. I'm Caroline Hyde at Bloomberg's world's headquarters in New York. |
| 0:57.0 | And I'm Ed Ludlow in San Francisco. This is Bloomberg Technology. |
| 1:00.0 | Coming up, look Spotify, it slashes its workforce by 17%. |
| 1:04.4 | It submit the company's steepest job cuts this year will break down the |
| 1:08.1 | streaming services push to cut costs and drive profitability. |
| 1:11.6 | Plus the crypto rally gains steam as Bitcoin tops 42,000 US dollars for the first time since |
| 1:18.5 | April of 2022. |
| 1:19.5 | We'll discuss what it means for the digital currency ecosystem in today's VC spotlight. |
| 1:24.4 | And we sit down with the Oculus creator Palmer Lucky as his defense technology |
| 1:29.3 | startup Andoril invails a tiny reusable fighter jet to blow up drones. |
| 1:35.0 | All that and so much more ahead. |
| 1:37.1 | Let's get into these markets. |
| 1:38.4 | Look, we are in sell-off mode. |
| 1:39.5 | We're just hearing from Guy and Alex that basically |
| 1:41.6 | we're just getting back to the levels that we're out on |
| 1:43.4 | Thursday such has been the drive higher and risk assets of late. We're off by 1.1 percent. |
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