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To kick off this week's news roundup, Kirsten walked us through Elon Musk\u2019s recent declaration of his intent to move both SpaceX and X\u2019s headquarters out of California to Texas. Whether or not he\u2019ll see those plans through remains to be seen, but of course, the Equity crew had thoughts.\n\nDiving into deals of the week, we talked about Sequoia Capital\u2019s emailing LPs in funds raised between 2009 and 2011 with an offer to buy up to $861 million worth of shares in Stripe. The move is evidence to the crew that LPs are increasingly antsy for liquidity in this dry IPO market. \n\nNext up, Rebecca Bellan led a discussion as to how Andrej Karpathy, former head of AI at Tesla and researcher at OpenAI, is launching Eureka Labs, an \u201cAI native\u201d education platform. We had a lively discussion on Karpathy\u2019s new initiative and when and how AI is appropriate in the classroom.\n\nWe closed out the deals segment with Mary Ann\u2019s scoop on PartnerOne\u2019s acquisition of HeadSpin, a company whose founder was sentenced to prison for fraud earlier this year. Employees were upset that they got nothing for their options as part of the buyout, which Marina Temkin this week reported was valued at a mere $28 million.\n\nThe group then got into an in-depth conversation about Silicon Valley\u2019s involvement in the election this year. Former President Donald Trump this week picked Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate, as he runs to reclaim the office he lost to President Joe Biden in 2020. Vance, who\u2019s best known for his memoir, \u201cHillbilly Elegy,\u201d spent years as a venture capitalist before leaving the industry when elected to the U.S. Senate in 2022. We also talked about Andreessen Horowitz\u2019s controversial vocal support of Trump and the startup-related reasons why its leaders are backing the Republican nominee. \n\nWe wrapped up Equity with a look at Latin America\u2019s startup scene and how it rebounded in funding in the second quarter, boosted by late-stage funding in the fintech sector. Press play and join the conversation!