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Elon Musk speaks to his soon to be employees for the first time at Twitter. Snap is testing a new subscription Snapchat. Microsoft debuts Defender for Individuals. Klarna is thinking about raising a massively down round. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: StitchFix.com/ride for $20 off DragonballZ Kakarot Links: Elon Musk Tells Staff Twitter Should Allow ‘Pretty Outrageous’ Tweets (Bloomberg) SpaceX Said to Fire Employees Involved in Letter Rebuking Elon Musk (NYTimes) Snap is working on a paid subscription called Snapchat Plus (The Verge) Microsoft launches Defender for Individuals for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers (ZDNet) Fintech Giant Klarna Slashes Fundraising Ambition (WSJ) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: What Should You Do With Your Options During a Downturn? (Every) ‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplace (The Guardian) A Billion-Dollar Crypto Gaming Startup Promised Riches and Delivered Disaster (Bloomberg)