👻 How a ghostwriter makes $200K /yr writing tweets for top Silicon Valley investors

Plus: Microsoft adds DALL-E to its Office suite,

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How a ghostwriter makes $200,000 a year writing tweets for top Silicon Valley investors. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with the founder of a tech startup who ghostwrites tweets for venture capitalists. Though the founder asked to remain anonymous to protect the confidentiality of his clients, his identity is known to… (Mattathias Schwartz via Business Insider)

Mattathias Schwartz @Schwartzesque

Turns out that ghostwriting tweets for venture capitalists is a booming cottage industry. I talked to someone who's doing quite well at it ...

businessinsider.comI made $200,000 last year ghostwriting tweets for superstar VCs. It takes me 5 hours a week. Here’s how I found my clients and built a boom…Twitter is Silicon Valley’s most important social club, and top investors pay me big bucks to make them look good in 280 characters.

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AI-generated imagery is the new clip art as Microsoft adds DALL-E to its Office suite. Microsoft is adding AI-generated art to its suite of Office software with a new app named Microsoft Designer. The app functions the same way as AI text-to-image models like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, letting users type prompts to… (James Vincent / The Verge)

James Vincent @jjvincent

Microsoft is launching a new app that uses DALL-E to generate images for your PowerPoint presentations, your website, your social media posts, and anything else you like. My hot take: AI generated imagery is the new clip art

theverge.comAI-generated imagery is the new clip art as Microsoft adds DALL-E to its Office suiteMicrosoft is bringing AI-generated art to its Office suite, with new apps and features that leverage OpenAI’s text-to-image model, DALL-E.

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The best way to reach new readers is word of mouth. If you click THIS LINK in your inbox, it’ll create an easy-to-send pre-written email you can just fire off to some friends.

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Apple to Withhold Its Latest Employee Perks From Unionized Store. Apple Inc. is withholding its latest employee benefits from staff who work at its sole unionized retail store, a move that could potentially inflame labor tensions at the technology giant. The company told retail and corporate staff this week that… (Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman @markgurman

New story: Apple is rolling out new tuition, education and health perks for its US employees. But the bigger news is that its unionized store in Towson, Maryland won’t get them.

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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What does Mark Zuckerberg think 'open' means?. Mark Zuckerberg wants to own the future of computing — but not alone. That's the intended takeaway from this year's Meta (formerly Facebook, formerlier Oculus) Connect, where the Meta CEO described his plans for a new computing platform. (Adi Robertson / The Verge)

nilay patel @reckless

Really good @thedextriarchy dive into what Zuckerberg means by "open" when it comes to the Quest and VR theverge.com/2022/10/12/233…

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One of the investors that agreed to back Elon Musk's Twitter bid says they want out of the deal. MVP partner says the VC firm committed to back Musk's Twitter acquisition earlier this year. The firm is trying to get out of its commitment because Twitter's real value is much lower now. Musk attorney says 'vast majority of equity investors have… (Darius Rafieyan / Business Insider)

Alex Heath @alexeheath

There’s no way this doesn’t end with Elon saying he can’t get the financing, paying the breakup fee, and walking away, right?

businessinsider.comOne of the investors that agreed to back Elon Musk’s Twitter bid says they want out of the dealEarlier this year, several investors agreed to contribute more than $7 billion to Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. Stock prices have slumped since then.

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