Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, March 15th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Stripe, by some measures, has become the most successful Silicon Valley startup of all time with

their recent rays. Air Table 2 has an impressively interesting rays. Facebook wants to find

you a vaccine appointment. The US is looking to overhaul its cybersecurity missile shield and checking

in on the whole Jack Ma situation. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Let's start with an interesting raise from over the weekend because as I said at the end of last week

This is maybe the startup all of Silicon Valley is the most interested in

Stripe announced that it has raised $600 million from Sequoia Capital and others, including

the Sovereign Investment Fund of Ireland, at a valuation of $95 billion. This makes Stripe not only the most

valuable private company in Silicon Valley right now but by some measures the

most valuable startup from Silicon Valley ever, surpassing the $80 billion

valuation Facebook had before its initial public offering in 2012.

Want to know who's number two on that list?

It was Uber, which saw a 72 billion dollar valuation before its IPO in 2019,

voting the Financial Times.

Stripe has also leapfrogged Elon Musk's rocket company, SpaceX, which briefly became the largest venture-backed company in the US, after investors gave it a $74 billion valuation last month.

Globally, it lags behind only bite dance, the 180 billion

dollar Chinese parent of Tik-T Group, the FinTech company that was forced to

delay its listing last year. Founded in 2010 by Irish Brothers Patrick and John Collison, now aged 32 and 30.

Stripes valuation has almost tripled in less than a year,

surpassing those achieved by Facebook and Uber before they went public.

The company's rising valuation reflects a boom in e-commerce and digital payments activity

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