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Cents Raises 0M to Build the Operating System for the B Laundry Industry – AlleyWatch

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Cents Raises $140M to Build the Operating System for the $60B Laundry Industry – AlleyWatch

April 1, 2026

Vertical SaaS has reshaped how restaurants, salons, and gyms run their businesses, but one major everyday service sector has remained...

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Behavioral scientists found that the most dangerous period in a man’s retirement isn’t the first week or even the first month — it’s the moment around month four when the novelty wears off and you realize that the life you spent thirty years dreaming about has no structure, no purpose, and no one waiting for you to show up

April 1, 2026

The first week was fine. Better than fine, actually. I slept in. I made slow breakfasts. I read the paper...

I’m 67 and I retired last year with 0,000 saved and a paid-off house — and by October I was Googling ‘is this all there is’ at 2am because nobody tells you that financial security and psychological purpose are completely unrelated problems

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I’m 67 and I retired last year with $680,000 saved and a paid-off house — and by October I was Googling ‘is this all there is’ at 2am because nobody tells you that financial security and psychological purpose are completely unrelated problems

I received an email last week from a reader who’d just retired. He’d done everything right – saved diligently, paid...

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Research suggests the likeability drop that many people experience after 60 correlates almost perfectly with an increase in self-reported life satisfaction — which means the trade most people make without realizing it is that they exchange social approval for internal alignment, and the people who notice you’ve changed are almost always the ones who preferred the version of you that prioritized their comfort over your truth

Last week, I disappointed someone I’ve known for thirty years, and I slept like a baby. There was a time...

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There’s a particular kind of strength that belongs to people who rebuilt their entire personality after 40 — not because something broke them, but because they finally had enough distance from their childhood to see what was never theirs to carry

Personality change after forty gets treated like a crisis. Midlife unravelling, people call it. A breakdown dressed in new hobbies...

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Behavioral scientists found that the people who become less likeable with age but more respected are operating on a principle most people understand intellectually but can’t execute emotionally — that respect and likeability are often inversely correlated after 60, because likeability requires you to shrink and respect requires you to hold your shape, and most people spent their first six decades shrinking and their last two deciding that holding their shape matters more than fitting into someone else’s frame

Last week at the grocery store, I watched a woman around my age tell the cashier that she’d been overcharged...

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Psychology says people who ask ‘how can I learn to be more empathetic’ already possess the one trait that matters most — self-awareness — while people who claim they’re already empathetic rarely are

A woman named Rachel sat across from me at a coffee shop on Amsterdam Avenue last winter, stirring her oat...

Airbase Raises M to Modernize the Invisible Wireless Infrastructure Powering Trillions in GDP – AlleyWatch

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Airbase Raises $5M to Modernize the Invisible Wireless Infrastructure Powering Trillions in GDP – AlleyWatch

America’s $4.5T wireless infrastructure faces a critical coordination bottleneck. While devices competing for radio spectrum have exploded, from 5G towers...

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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 3/30/26 – AlleyWatch

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of...

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Toyota faces aluminum supply risks as Strait of Hormuz tensions threaten the material EVs depend on