FWIW it is more diverse than that, I'm guessing they're just used to picking the controversial North American names to make sure that people actually feel incentivised to come. They had Jensen Huang on a few days ago.

The timing to IPO also seems off to me - discretionary spending on sports will be among the first to go in a recession + people are already weary of expensive races, shoes and kit.

Some of the other highlights for Strava over recent years are its efforts to outrank the War Thunder forums for leaking military secrets.

For those who want to read about the lawsuit, but TLDR it's about segments, user-created parts of a route on which athlete efforts can be ranked. It's really dumb and minor.

(I just want VAT-exempt and NHS-subsidies running trainers)

First gilded age monopolists at least looked cool and had some values.

7/End result: Macron calls for a new enlightenment -- the end of dependence on US social media. Not because of economic argument (level playing fields) but because dependence threatens national security. Hate to say I told you so but @himself.bsky.social and I did.
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

I remember chatting to a farmer circa 2019 at a dinner and asking him what he was doing about climate change. No response - just keep doing things as they had been done for generations.