Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Munchery Bites the Big One. Fox Con considers moving production to India.

Netflix wants a seat at the adults table and yes, even guitar tech is now tech.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

I've jokingly referred once or twice in the past to possibly creating a dead pool for the

podcast for companies especially in certain sectors that seem to be imperiled.

I think we've mentioned Evernote and I know we've implied that we're watching movie pass pretty closely.

But one space that has been struggling mightily that I'm not sure we've talked about is the

meal kit delivery space.

Yesterday in an email to customers,

Munchery officially entered the deadpool

saying it will end operations effectively immediately

and will refund any outstanding orders.

Munchery had raised a total of more than 125 million dollars from venture capitalists including

Menlo Ventures and Sherpa Capital.

As I say, the meal delivery space has had its issues.

Blue Apron I P.

In 2017, and since then its shares have fallen by more than 80%, closing Friday at a dollar and 40 cents.

But Blue Apron is one of the meal delivery startups that was a true meal kit.

They sent you a box containing the pre-portioned

ingredients of your meal. You still had to cook it up yourself. But Munchery

like Sprig created its own kitchen for chef-produced pre-made meals.

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