Alex Wilhelm
speaker
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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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 108 in all, peaking in Oct 2025 with 15.
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You talk to a lot of startups.
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You probably heard every horror story there is.
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Uh, when you hear all of this, to me it sounds like some behavior that I wouldn't do myself.
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But I'm curious what your take is on both YC, the startup, and its competitor.
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initially supported them after it broke, too, if you recall.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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What was your investor's response to this?
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Because you took a risk, right?
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By calling out a VC by name, you you really stepped on the plank here.
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You could have fallen off.
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I mean, people talk a lot about reputation management in the fundraising game.
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So uh were your own existing backers concerned that you were about to kick the wrong beehive?
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general catalysts or potentially raise money from them, so I don't have to be nice.
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Uh my view of the firm has gone down dramatically because of this.
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And I've been to GC, I've known investors there, I've been in their stupid elevator pitching room.
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Like this is a firm that I used to hold in relatively high regard.
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But when I seen behavior like this and an unwillingness to admit possibly making a mistake, to me, you're just not a serious actor, and I'm I'm gonna judge you for it.
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Like I mean this is.
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I was
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