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 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/stripe-in-talks-to-acquire-bridge-for-1-billion/">acquisition of stablecoin platform Bridge</a> for an eye-popping $1.1 billion. Today on TechCrunch’s <a href="https://pod.link/equity">Equity</a> 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:
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<li>Mobileye founder and CEO <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/21/one-zero-the-ai-fintech-started-by-the-founder-of-mobileeye-is-raising-100m-say-sources/">Amnon Shashua’s latest startup</a></li>
<li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/22/ex-spacex-engineers-land-14m-to-scale-new-method-for-3d-printing-metal/">A 3D metal printing startup’s $14 million round</a> from Boeing’s AE Ventures and Nvidia</li>
<li>Andreessen Horowitz’s<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/23/andreessen-horowitz-helps-founders-meet-compute-needs-with-oxygen-private-gpu-cluster/"> plans to provide its portfolio companies with Nvidia GPUs</a></li>
<li>And who we’re expecting to see at <a href="https://techcrunch.com/events/tc-disrupt-2024/">TechCrunch’s Disrupt 2024</a>.</li>
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Equity will be live at Disrupt on <a href="https://techcrunch.com/events/tc-disrupt-2024/agenda/#agenda-day-1da31200-ca07-40d4-95ea-3bd8111fb7ea">Tuesday</a>, so we'll see you there! 
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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 [&hellip;]

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