{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Tech.eu","title":"Amazon's wages and taxes, funding for Huel, Balderton's Liquidity fund, interviews with Monzo and GitLab, and more","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/ad525350\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3374,"description":"On this episode, hosted by Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler, we discussed the following topics:\r\n\r\n\r\nThe biggest deal of the week: Owlstone Medical from Cambridge raises $35 million for its breathalyser-based diagnostics solution.\r\nAmazon has announced that it will raise minimum wages for all its workers in the US and in the UK\r\n - Don’t let Amazon’s living wage announcement fool you. This is why I’m not calling off my boycott yet\r\n - Amazon workers strike in Germany, Spain and Poland to coincide with Prime Day\r\n - Amazon’s other pay benefit: A higher UK tax rate?\r\n - Amazon warehouse workers lose bonuses, stock awards for raises\r\n - Amazon raises the minimum wage for US and UK employees\r\n\r\n\r\nInterview: Jonas Huckestein, co-founder and CTO of Monzo \r\n\r\n\r\nHuel, the UK food startup that has secured a £20 million funding round from Highland Capital\r\n\r\n\r\nInterview: Dmitriy Zaporozhets, the co-founder and CTO of Europe’s latest unicorn GitLab \r\n\r\n\r\nBalderton Capital, a venture fund headquartered in London, has raised its new fund of $145 million called Liquidity I\r\n - Why we raised Balderton’s Liquidity I — and the dramatic growth and maturation of Europe’s tech ecosystem\r\n - Balderton’s $145M ‘secondary’ fund will give shareholders in European scale-ups the chance to exit early\r\n\r\n\r\nEvents:\r\n - Web Summit stays in Lisbon\r\n - World Summit AI in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; October 10–11\r\n - Health Pioneers in Vienna, Austria; October 10\r\n - RuhrSummit in Bochum, Germany; October 11–12\r\n - Europe Code Week; October 6–21\r\n - SaaStock in Dublin, Ireland; October 15–17\r\n - Uprise Festival in Dublin, Ireland; October 17–18\r\n - Fintech Belgium Summit in Brussels, Belgium; October 22\r\n - Women Startup Challenge Europe in Paris, France; October 25\r\n\r\n\r\nOur reading recommendations\r\n\r\n\r\nAfter earning €10 million in revenues, Tim Schumacher and Christian Kroll will to turn their company, Ecosia over to their employees and become a “self-owned company”\r\n - Our company, Ecosia,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3S7FadxnDDFVJsNF1EaysmsIekXd_xWzeJsc4XIE2HQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzkzMTcvMTYyOTQ0/ODQ2OS1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}