Startups Weekly: What’s up with YC? Plus, mobility layoffs and Airbnb’s grand plans

In this week’s startups newsletter: Y Combinator president Sam Altman is stepping down, Marie Kondo is raising VC and Munchery has finally filed for bankruptcy.

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James Corden does ‘Tidying Up’ spoof with Jean-Claude Van Damme and yeah, he breaks everything

Since the hit Netflix show Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, people have been all about cleaning up their homes using the KonMari method. 
But have you heard of the JamCordVanDam method? It basically means just breaking all your stuff if it fails…

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App hoarders, it’s time to Marie Kondo your phone

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If Marie Kondo were to appear before you right now, grab your smartphone out of your hand and thumb through your pages of apps, what do you think she’d say?

The Japanese guru of clean is all the rage in 2019, ever since Netflix debuted her TV show, with perfect resolution-related timing, on January 1. Her “spark joy” meme — toss anything that doesn’t — is the Spanish Flu of our century: It has gone viral while we were paying attention to other crises, and its cleansing progress around the planet shows no signs of slowing. The tech world is only the latest vector of infection.

Kondo’s big-time fame has happened to the chagrin of both hoarders and hipsters who’d long since digested the lessons in her book. I am somewhat sympathetic to the former camp, while my wife is firmly in the latter. She caught the KonMari virus in 2015, beginning the now-familiar rituals of emptying closets and saying goodbye to clothes that no longer served us. Friends began to come down with the bug, smiling serenely at the simplicity of their once-cluttered credenzas.  Read more…

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Clean up your Twitter timeline with this Marie Kondo-inspired web app

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You’re not alone in thinking your Twitter timeline is a joyless, cluttered place.

While you might not be in the position to dump Twitter, the next best thing is to tidy up your timeline, which you can do so with a web app inspired by Marie Kondo’s KonMari method.

Tokimeki Unfollow is a tool which lets you figure out who to unfollow by asking you if their tweets “spark joy.”

The tool comes with a few options at the start, like sorting accounts you’ve followed by chronology, or if you want to see their bios.  

From there, you’ll be presented with a timeline of people you follow one-by-one, then you have the choice of unfollowing them, adding them to a list, or keeping them around.  Read more…

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Let people do whatever they want with their dang books, sheesh

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If you follow a lot of people who watch a lot of Netflix, then you’ve probably spent a lot of 2019 so far watching them argue about books. Specifically, about Tidying Up with Marie Kondo‘s approach to books.

“Keep your tidy, spark-joy hands off my book piles, Marie Kondo,” gasped The Washington Post“Marie Kondo, back off! Why this book hoarder refuses to tidy up,” declared Cnet. On Twitter, some bibliophiles expressed shock and horror, while others reacted to that shock and horror with snark and bemusement

After what she said about books? Passpic.twitter.com/qIJ75SrVHC

— Brae Chilchot (@braeunfiltered) January 4, 2019 Read more…

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Marie Kondo memes imagine her as a bloodthirsty demon spirit

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Netflix star and sweet tidy-upper Marie Kondo can do no wrong — or so we thought.

Kondo can be found on screens and bookshelves everywhere, making people decide whether or not their earthly possessions spark joy. She’s a consistently calming, harmonious presence. Only Twitter could find a way to corrupt Miss Kondo and turn her into a cleaning demon. 

We didn’t expect “Marie Kondo” and “gun” to be used in the same tweet this soon, but we’re also not surprised. Here, the victims speak:

Okay, we’re watching the Marie Kondo tidying show. She’s already crawled out of our tv and thrown all my DVDs out the window.

— Kirst New Year (@Winskillfull) January 8, 2019 Read more…

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‘Tidying Up With Marie Kondo’ has Twitter obsessed with cleaning

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Organizing deity Marie Kondo’s new Netflix show, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, debuted just in time for New Year’s resolution anxiety season. Now, instead of worrying about doing Dry January, we can worry about doing Dry January and completing a taxing deep clean of our homes.

I’m still watching the show, though, and it’s delightful. Kondo is funny, compassionate, and comforting to watch, and Tidying Up certainly meets the “transformation” requirement we’ve come to expect from lifestyle-centric reality TV. 

By the looks of Twitter, I’m not the only one who’s binge-watching. A lot of people, brimming with New Year’s enthusiasm, are trying out the KonMari method — keeping only items that “spark joy” — for themselves. Others are just tweeting jokes about it, but that’s useful too. If we only look at good tweets, it’s like we’re KonMari-ing Twitter. Read more…

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