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This week felt like two weeks rolled into one. To kick things off, Mary Ann Azevedo walked everyone through Clio\u2019s huge fundraise. The Canadian legal tech company raised $900 million at a $3 billion valuation \u2014 a very large sum anytime, but especially in this market. Impressively, the company is still growing rapidly, which isn't easy to do when you\u2019re at such a late stage. We talked about the drivers behind that growth and how Clio differs from other legal tech startups raising capital these days.\n\nNext up, Mary Ann and Rebecca Szkutak discussed Alphabet\u2019s announcement this week that it would invest another up to $5 billion in Waymo. It\u2019s an obvious vote of confidence on self-driving cars on Alphabet\u2019s part, but both Becca and Mary Ann agreed on one thing: They\u2019d prefer to stick with riding in cars with human drivers.\n\nWe closed out our deals of the week with a lively discussion on a 17-year-old founder and investor who pitched investors out of the stall of his high school bathroom. He just raised money for his startup, Aviato, and his story is an inspirational and fun read.\n\nNext up was cybersecurity company Wiz turning down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Alphabet. We talked about potential reasons and looked at other examples of large M&A deals not working out.\n\nWe wrapped up Equity with a look at digital banking startup Mercury abruptly shuttering its service to founders located in certain countries, such as Ukraine. Founders were naturally not happy, but another fintech was waiting in the wings to help affected customers.