Bloomberg:
An interview with Marcos Galperin, CEO of MercadoLibre, which has a $105B market cap, on his upcoming resignation, MercadoLibre's rivalry with Amazon, and more  —  MercadoLibre's Marcos Galperin will hand over the CEO title, but he still has a lot of ideas for the business.

Bloomberg:
iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring agreement to hand control to secured lender and key Chinese supplier Shenzhen Picea  —  iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy …

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Ralph Jones / The Guardian:
How Skövde, a small Swedish city of 58,000, built a local video game ecosystem via a degree for game developers at University of Skövde and a startup incubator  —  It started with a goat.  Now - via a degree for developers and an incubator for startups - the tiny city is churning out world-famous video game hits.

Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the efforts to open private markets, where shares of startups like OpenAI trade, to small investors, and the opportunities and risks they bring  —  The buzziest private companies are being sold to a select few as the universe of stocks everyone else can invest in shrinks rapidly