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 · Avi Patel on the startup that copied Kled and why he called out General Catalyst by name | E2291 · 20 May 2026 podcast

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So uh where are you in this process? voice-verified

When does it complete? voice-verified

When are you uh safe in your status as a bank? voice-verified

So what does this bring to Mercury? voice-verified

Because we've seen a lot of neobanks build and grow without having a bank inside their own house, right? voice-verified

They've used third party banks and so forth. voice-verified

And the model frankly worked pretty well. voice-verified

It seemed to abstract a lot of the complexity and regulatory overhead. voice-verified

Uh you're going for it. voice-verified

So I I presume there's a lot of benefits to doing this. voice-verified

What are those and what will that do to the the quality of your business? voice-verified

So you're not gonna go buy a stablecoin startup as we've seen Stripe and other companies do, sounds like. voice-verified

Ahmad, whenever I hear someone talk about like really quick or instant product market fit, my ears go up because I'm always curious about how you reach that so quickly and it implies that you had customers very quickly. voice-verified

So talk to me about launch, getting those first customers in and how you felt confident in having PMF that early because you didn't have a lot of historical data to compare to at that point. voice-verified

lot more a lot faster. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Uh can I ask you one question before we let you go, which is you raised less money this round than your preceding round by a hundred million dollars. voice-verified

And I could read that so many different ways. voice-verified

You're just burning less capital, et cetera. voice-verified

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