The payments provider, Stripe, is now worth $95bn after its latest round of fundraising, and more than 4.4m Americans have created businesses during the pandemic. Plus, the FT’s innovation editor, John Thornhill, gives highlights from the latest episode of his Tech Tonic podcast, which looks at two countries where citizens have been comfortable with how their government used some of their private data during the pandemic. Stripe valuation soars to $95bn after latest fundraisinghttps://www.ft.com/content/b9949a88-6c09-4de5-92e7-73994bb2b62fThe Covid entrepreneurs: Americans start millions of new businesseshttps://www.ft.com/content/400ae372-0cb2-48bb-8767-7986848ed9a6 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.