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Insider Look: A Deep Dive into Reddit’s Initial Public Offering!

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Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Weekend team, we have something both short and sweet for you: A dig into the Reddit IPO filing that came out just after we recorded our final, regular episode of the week. Since we could not wait until Monday to talk about the numbers, we have an overview here for your delectation. If you want to read along:The Reddit IPO could be this year’s public-offering starting gun, or it could be a wet blanket on the year’s liquidity cycle. We’ll see how it prices, and even more how it trades when it does list.

Wasn’t layoff season supposed to be over?

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Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Get help and not hype from leading founders, investors, entrepreneurs and startup experts sharing hard-won info that every founder needs to know. Most interesting startup stories this weekIt’s been a decade since Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn” in a TechCrunch article to describe a startup valued at more than $1 billion. If you’re only reading two things on TechCrunch this week, make it Startups Weekly — and Lee’s article. Who knows, but that doesn’t stop a bunch of really interesting startups from raising absolutely buckets of cash.

“Is the Stateside Visa Stamping Program Right for Me? Insights from Sophie.”

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Dear Sophie,I’m working in the U.S. on an H-1B visa, which I received in 2022. However, I don’t have an H-1B visa stamp in my passport because I changed my status from an F-1 student to H-1B professional while in the U.S. We have many clients who, like you, changed their status while in the U.S. and don’t have a visa foil — often called a visa stamp — in their passport. The pilot program has been substantially scaled back from last year’s initial reports to limit the required resources. At the time, reports indicated that the pilot program would enable both H-1B and L-1 visa holders to renew the visa stamp in their passport while remaining in the U.S.