Happy Friday, aka National Doughnut Day! To celebrate, Krispy Kreme is giving anyone a free doughnut, regardless of whether any other purchases are made. Nothing like original glazed heaven on Friday… 🍩

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Stripe announced a new charge card product as part of the Stripe Issuing suite. Fintechs can now create and distribute virtual or physical cards that allow customers to spend on credit, rather than only using funds in their accounts.

The move unlocks major new revenue streams for the likes of Ramp and Karat (and Stripe, of course..), while also increasing liquidity for end users 💦

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Epic adjusts creator payouts based on ‘time played’

• Google Wallet rolls out custom cards and state IDs 

• Google Play Books adds a reading skills feature

• Microsoft brings its AI-powered designer tool to Teams 

• Meta unveils 20 new games for Quest headsets 

General and early-stage

• Wattpad revamps its creator program with new payout tiers

• Match Group launches Archer, a gay dating app for men 

• BeReal ships RealChat, a new messaging feature 

• ETA integrates its drive time app with CarPlay

• Verizon unveils a Netflix and Paramount+ streaming bundle

🔍 Other good finds

• Bottoms up. Mastering the art of managing up as a PM

• No pizzas. Amazon swaps humans for AI to assess damaged goods

• Mach-E’s for all. Ford offers flexible EV leases to Uber

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol