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DoorDash to pay $131.5m over New York delivery wages
Most of the settlement — $83m — turns on how the company paid drivers for time spent waiting between orders. Any startup running a gig model now knows what regulators count as working time.
DoorDash to pay $131.5m in New York City settlement
The payout is large in aggregate and small per driver: the median payment will be under $100. Any US startup running on contractors should note which regulator brought it.
Humanities PhD dropout raised $92m for AI billing startup Tabs
Ali Hussain left Oxford two months into a doctorate, spent six years learning operations at a 10-person startup, then hired a technical co-founder to cover what he could not do himself.
Carpenter turned founder raises $70m for construction AI firm
Sarah Buchner started on Austrian job sites as a teenager. Trunk Tools, the company she founded in 2021, now employs more than 100 people and was valued at $325m last year.
New York City gives four prediction market firms 14 days
City consumer-protection officials have demanded answers from Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase and Gemini over marketing that may be deceptive. Any founder advertising financial upside should read the deadline as a warning.
Clay tells staff: writing a document should take longer than reading it
The sales software company has put a rule in writing about how long internal documents should take to produce. The detail of how it is enforced has not been published.
Duramax built for 3.39m bins, sold 1.2m, filed Chapter 7
New York City's official supplier of wheelie bins says the pace of the city's own rollout left it holding a factory built for three times the orders it got.