December 5, 2023
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Happy Monday! Almost a year after the country’s central bank imposed a freeze on onboarding new merchants for online payment firms, they have been forced to scout for alternative revenue sources. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch. Also in this letter:■ EU founders and VCs turn to safer shores■ Beckn finds takers on
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Startups are taking the road less travelled to hire prospective candidates. They are innovating their interview formats by inculcating tech, asking quirky questions, and putting candidates in uncharted waters to ascertain that the person across the table is not a square peg in a round hole, say top executives. Plus, sourcing tools and the power
READ MOREA rare nugget of information about the famously enigmatic street art superstar Banksy emerged Tuesday when he gave his first name as “Robbie” in an unearthed 2003 BBC interview. In the interview, one of the few known to exist with the global art phenomenon, he is asked if his name “Robert Banks”, to which he
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Brace yourself: You are about to hear the voice of the art world’s most elusive figure — and learn his first name. Nigel Wrench, who worked as a BBC arts correspondent in the ’90s and 2000s, claims to have unearthed a taped 2003 interview he had with Banksy early in the incredibly secretive graffiti icon’s
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A lost BBC interview with street artist Banksy has been unearthed in which the mysterious artist reveals what his first name is. In the 2003 recording, BBC reporter Nigel Wrench asks him if he is called “Robert Banks”, and the artist replies: “It’s Robbie.” The full interview can be heard on BBC Radio 4’s The
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Univision has found itself at the center of a growing controversy after a recent interview with former President Trump that critics have blasted as too friendly. The interview that aired Nov. 9 was noticeably warm, and Trump received little pushback as he gave false or misleading statements on border security and immigration policies he instituted
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French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife Brigitte Macron revealed her relationship anxieties from the early days of dating the future French leader – including concerns he would “fall in love with someone his age” after moving schools. “My head was in a mess,” Brigitte Macron said during a rare interview, given to the outlet Paris Match,
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‘Now and Then’ has its origins as a composition recorded by John Lennon in his New York home in the Dakota building in the late 1970s – about 10 years after the Beatles broke up. Lennon played the song while a cassette recorder was running on top of his piano, although the composition was at
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Orley Ashenfelter has been doing a series of interviews with labor and industrial relations economists. The most recent is “Myra Strober on women, work, and feminist economics” (November 6, 2023, Episode 19, audio and transcript available). The description of her early education and career has some great stories, although some of them have a high
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