Stripe's biggest acquisition yet, and what's a16z doing with all of those Nvidia GPUs?

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It’s no secret that Stripe has doubled down on its crypto offerings, enabling crypto purchases in the EU back in July and announcing a Pay with Crypto feature earlier this month. This week, the fintech giant made its dedication to crypto even clearer with its largest deal to date: its acquisition of stablecoin platform Bridge for an eye-popping $1.1 billion. Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha and Devin Coldewey kicked off the show with their thoughts on the deal – mainly how surprising it is to see anyone spending over $1 billion on crypto in 2024. But of course, there was so much more startup and venture news for the crew to get into this week. Listen to the full episode for more about: Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua’s latest startup A 3D metal printing startup’s $14 million round from Boeing’s AE Ventures and Nvidia Andreessen Horowitz’s plans to provide its portfolio companies with Nvidia GPUs And who we’re expecting to see at TechCrunch’s Disrupt 2024. Equity will be live at Disrupt on Tuesday, so we'll see you there!

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0:00.0	This episode is presented by Mercury, the FinTech that simplifies how more than 200,000 businesses operate. Hello and welcome back to Equity Tech Runch's flagship podcast about the business of startups.
0:24.7	Today is Friday, October 25th.
0:27.4	I'm Kirsten Kaurisac and joining me today is Devon Coldaway for our last recording before drum roll please disrupt.
0:36.2	Devon what are you most excited for besides seeing me for next week?
0:42.4	I was gonna say seeing you but then I'm thinking maybe
0:45.0	recording equity.
0:46.3	It's going to be so fun.
0:47.4	So we're going to do it live.
0:49.6	But I really, I could tell.
0:51.5	I could tell by the sound of your voice and inflection that you truly are actually excited about recording a live show at Disrupt.
0:58.0	That's what people tell me that they love my inflection.
1:01.0	I genuinely am I most excited about seeing all my colleagues. We don't get to see
1:04.8	each other as much as I'd like, you know, I'm sure many of our listeners can sympathize with
1:09.2	you know virtual environments and remote work and stuff. It's just great to get together with everybody
1:13.8	and shoot the breeze. Shoot the breeze yeah and actually I'm really
1:18.8	excited because our other co-host today who I have not seen in person in forever.
1:25.8	Tech Runch is Anthony Ha is not only on today's show but we get to see him in person
1:30.5	for the first time in like I want to say three years so Anthony welcome.
1:34.8	Thank you yeah I think it's probably more like five years because the last disrupt
1:40.6	I did as a Tech Crunch staffer was in 2020. Obviously that was virtual so I think the
1:45.9	last one where I was there in person with their all of you was 2019 which is
1:49.4	horrifying to think what that? That's crazy.
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