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Whats up, and welcome to Fairness, a podcast concerning the enterprise of startups, the place we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. That is our Friday episode, after we dig again by way of essentially the most essential tales and themes from the week.

Right here’s what Mary Ann and Alex obtained into:

• Stripe’s valuation recovers: As a part of a young supply, Stripe is now price $65 billion. The corporate’s valuation has been on an up-and-down path lately as the corporate works to make its huge bulk match into the personal markets. Alex has ideas on when it ought to go public, as you may think.
• Fervo Vitality’s $200M+ spherical: What if the answer to our vitality issues was not within the stars, however beneath our ft? And no, I’m not speaking about carbon-based fuels. No, as an alternative, what if geothermal vitality is what we’ve been ready for? Fervo desires to make that query right into a actuality.
• Why VCs are investing in corporations that shut down corporations: With extra startups than standard heading for closure, there’s a mountain of labor forward for founders and backers to shutter corporations. Now some angels and different buyers are placing their very own capital into a number of corporations focusing on serving to different corporations shut. Grim, however needed.
• AI and the regulation: Microsoft’s transfer to spend money on French AI firm Mistral is just not a nasty approach to unfold its bets. Or to doubtlessly fend of regulatory scrutiny that’s constructing. AI basically is having a little bit of a time checking out rights — or lack thereof — that some coaching information might retain.

Developing this weekend we’ve got an interview with Nubank’s CEO, and we’ve got one other nice interview deliberate for the weekend after! Chat quickly!