Highlights of the Week (February 18, 2022)

There’s an Instagram page called Midtown Uniform with 147K followers. It’s not the typical fashion account showing Balenciaga, Valentino, or LES street fashion. Instead, it showcases the comically common khaki, button-up, and puffer vest uniform of midtown Manhattan’s finance and tech “Chads.” But fashion people will tell you not to dismiss the ubiquity of this banker and techie choice. The uniform is versatile, appropriate, and–sometimes–stylish.

Here’s what we covered this week on the Daily Stack:

• Pandemic darling Peloton recently slashed 2,800 jobs. We looked at fellow fitness tech companies as people decide how to work out. Check it out.

• For our investment highlight, we looked at the growing interest in regenerative agriculture admist record funding for agtech. What is it and why does it have investors excited about soil? Find out.

  • For anyone who’s ever yelled “TALK TO A REPRESENTATIVE” into a bot-automated customer service line, this story is for you. We examined the ongoing need for the human touch in call centers and how AI is improving agent skills, rather than replacing agents altogether. Learn more.

• We profiled the humble beginnings of the $40BN business that makes anyone a proficient designer. Canva has 60M+ active monthly users, and it generates more than $1BN annually in reveues. See how.