{"id":55040,"date":"2023-11-18T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/18\/time-for-moderation-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T18:00:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T18:00:49","slug":"time-for-moderation-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/18\/time-for-moderation-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for moderation? | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><em>W<\/em><br \/><em>elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It\u2019s inspired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/tag\/the-exchange\/?utm_source=internal&amp;utm_medium=WPunit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">daily TechCrunch+ column<\/a> where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/newsletters?utm_source=internal&amp;utm_medium=WPunit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"featured__span-first-words\">Does freight logistics<\/span> need a one-stop shop? That\u2019s Flexport\u2019s take, and maybe that\u2019s one of the reasons why Convoy didn\u2019t work out; however, it might be too early for this approach in Latin America. On a different note, investors still seem willing to support startups that help people drink less alcohol, as long as there\u2019s AI involved.<\/p>\n<p><i>By the way, this newsletter will be taking a break next week, but I\u2019ll be back December 2.\u2014 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abracarioca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Anna<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Lessons to learn?<\/h2>\n<p>Entrepreneurs often write postmortems after shutting down or selling their companies, but it is less common for these lessons to be drawn by their acquirers as well. Yet, that\u2019s what happened to Convoy, a failed digital freight unicorn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/flexport-buys-tech-backbone-of-failed-startup-convoy-e6a1a8ea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whose tech backbone<\/a> \u2014 including a few team members \u2014 is being acquired by Flexport.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freightwaves.com\/news\/flexport-acquires-convoy-technology-stack-for-undisclosed-sum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memo<\/a> quoted by FreightWaves, Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen made it clear that while he was keen on buying Convoy because of the \u201cincredible tech stack\u201d it built, he was not buying its strategy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/11\/18\/freight-logistics-flexport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It\u2019s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Does freight logistics need a one-stop shop? That\u2019s Flexport\u2019s take, and maybe that\u2019s one of the reasons why Convoy didn\u2019t work out; however, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}