Highlights of the Week (12/11/2020)

Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish readers! This week brought a number of mega-valued IPOs from Doordash to Airbnb, the UK starting vaccine treatments including to a guy named William Shakespeare (!), and the FTC is suing Facebook for its monopoly on the digital industry. Here’s our recap of the week’s Stack. 

• Didn’t catch our list of the most resilient companies of 2020? Read about our findings. Or see the list for yourself. 
• If you are one to make new year’s resolutions, perhaps sorting them into task lists will be useful. Note-taking apps are making a comeback and perhaps it will help all of us actually go through our resolutions this time? Read more.
• Another trend to make a comeback is subscription boxes. Started by Birchbox with its personalized beauty product samples, subscription boxes have since transcended into subscriptions of anything you can think of. We break down some of the popular subscriptions. Read more.
• No one can take away the sweets, even a pandemic. Candy purchases have increased by 4.1% and even a toned-down Halloween didn’t stop candy sales. And many organic growth companies are riding the wave of quarantine candy consumption. Read more.