Happy Friday! How did JP Morgan realize its $175m acquisition of college financial platform Frank was a sham? After a marketing email to 400k of Frank's customers resulted in only 103 opens 😂 Sparing a thought for that marketing manager's initial reaction...

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Eight Sleep, a sleep technology company, paywalled core hardware functionality behind an annual subscription. Annual memberships are now a mandatory inclusion for all mattress purchases, and basic features such as temperature automation and alarm vibration now fall within the subscription 💵🐮

The trend of consumer hardware companies paywalling features behind a subscription continues. Given the likes of Oura have paywalled core sleep tracking functionality, it's no wonder people now need a membership for their own bed 😴

 ♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Lyft relaunches an EV-only feature for business travellers

• Discord ships its own in-app soundboard 

• Twitter cuts ad display by 50% for Blue subscribers 

• Walmart announces its building a national EV charging network

• Meta adds 14 games playable within Messenger video calls 

• Google rolls out WebGPU tech for in-browser gaming

General and early-stage

• Earned launches a product to help physicians manage wealth 

• T-Mobile to provide free MLB TV subscriptions to customers 

• True Anomaly unveils its intelligence gathering satellites 

• SetSail adds ChatGPT to its sales compensation software

• Flair AI launches a Props feature for digital photoshoots 

🔍 Other good finds

• No time to waste. Driving alignment and urgency as a PM

• So it begins. Twitter cuts off ability to embed Tweets in Substack

• Gettin' Saucy. The intricacies of IMVUs social economy

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol