The battle for BNPL buyers and other TC news

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Podcast, where you’ll hear everything you need to know about the week’s top stories in tech from the people who wrote them. This week we talk with Mary Ann Azevedo about two fintech giants, Affirm and Stripe, partnering up and what that means for competitors, and Brian Heater comes on to preview next week’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference. As always, you’ll get a rundown of the week’s top news on TechCrunch.

Articles from the episode:

• Affirm teams up with Stripe as the BNPL wars intensify
• What to expect from Apple’s WWDC 2022 keynote

Other news from the week:

• Sheryl Sandberg will step down as Meta COO
• Former OpenSea exec arrested and charged with insider trading of NFTs
• a16z-backed Loom lays off 14% of staff, one year after becoming a unicorn
• SWVL plans to lay off 32% of its team two months after going public
• Tech layoffs top 15K in a brutal May