China’s tech crackdown and Unacademy’s stock options for educators

This is the 91st edition of Things Change, The Morning Context’s weekly newsletter on the most important and urgent subjects in the world of internet companies and startups.

China is on a tear and it is quite something to watch from the stands as the government there takes on Big Tech. But if you are an investor in China's tech industry, chances are that you'd be stocking up on antidepressants right now.

Three big tech companies—Tencent, Alibaba and Meituan—lost nearly $240 billion in market value in the first two days of trading this week following the mayhem unleashed by China's …

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Pradip is a co-founder at The Morning Context and leads our newsletters vertical. He has previously worked at The Ken as a staff writer, at Mint as an assistant features editor and the Deccan Chronicle as a copy editor. He works with a slew of expert newsletter writers across subjects and domains. His own writing spans the gig economy, farmers caught in the crossfire of technology, global warming and parents trapped in the edtech wave. Some of his best stories have come at the intersection of technology and human endeavour.

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