Alex Wilhelm

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67,402 appearances 274 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 19 Aug

Alex Wilhelm’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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This Week in Startups · Why the most expensive Seed deals are the cheapest | E2299 · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

And the fact that it was like 10 different stories of napping VCs, like someone asked, is there like a a a a plague of narcolepsy going through the valley? voice-verified

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I I don't know, Paige. voice-verified

It it doesn't feel like that would fly with kind of the modern founder who's in a hurry and has their eye on a pretty big prize. voice-verified

And so I I'm curious, how do you manage to keep your eyes open um when you're listening to founders pitch you and your fund? voice-verified

So venture transparency is the uh it's it follows the Nasdaq pretty closely then. voice-verified

NASDAQ's high, everyone's doing well, valuations are up, VCs are on notice, NASDAQ is down, everyone's poor, founders are quiet. voice-verified

Okay, so essentially this is peak. voice-verified

Uh share your story mode. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

Uh I want to click on one one story, and no one here works at Sequoia, so we're we're totally safe. voice-verified

Uh Brendan from Merkur, one of those um AI data. voice-verified

Data companies that's grown to $80 trillion in revenue. voice-verified

Had him on the show a while back. voice-verified

Lovely guy. voice-verified

Episode 2159, if you want to watch that. voice-verified

He said the quote, Sequoia scam is worse than a single horror story. voice-verified

In the last six months, I've seen a half dozen rounds where Sequoia invests in two tranches. voice-verified

Everyone pretends they only did the higher valuation. voice-verified

Founders must represent this to their employees and then shop it to angels. voice-verified

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