The Cadillac Optiq is an entry-level luxury EV aimed at attracting young buyers.

With a base price of $54,000, it’s the cheapest in the EV line-up, and its design has enough special touches to stand apart from the rest of its portfolio.

In other words, the Optiq is designed and priced as a stepping stone into the Cadillac brand.

After years of missteps and struggles, the banking-as-a-service fintech Synapse officially has gone bankrupt. When a banking or financial startup fails, ordinary people get hurt. According to Synapse’s filings, up to 100 fintechs and 10 million customers could be impacted. But as industry expert Jason Mikula told TechCrunch, some customers using Synapse operate small businesses, meaning that the impact of Synapse’s collapse could be even more widespread than we think.

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When someone starts two incredibly successful enterprise companies, they must really understand the issues enterprises face and how to solve them. This week on Found, Becca and Dom talk with Arvind Jain, the CEO and co-founder of Glean () , an AI-powered work assistant that connects and understands enterprise knowledge. The idea for Glean was born out of Jain’s experience at his previous startup Rubrik.In this conversation they cover:
 

• How Jain knew it was time to start a new company and why it didn’t make sense to build Glean inside of Rubrik
• The importance of building a self-sufficient leadership team and the downside of micromanaging
• Why cybersecurity is top of mind when working with enterprise data at an AI company

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