Trey Ward

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How I Invest with David Weisburd · E281:The Tsunami of Pain Facing Venture Capital · 13 Jan 2026 podcast

So inherently, if they don't get a new funding, they will die.

So what it comes down to is you reach this critical moment, right, within Death Valley, and it's kind of the sink or swim moment.

You're either going to raise a big round, right, and be worth $100, $200, $300 million, right?

Or you won't and you go to zero, right?

Nobody in the company knows when you reach that critical moment if you're going to get it done.

None of the investors know.

Nobody in the market knows.

And so it's just a very scary moment where everyone's kind of holding onto their seats thinking, is this thing going to the moon or is it going to zero next month?

What we try to do is put them in buckets.

The first bucket, and this sounds blunt, said with love to all you entrepreneurs out there, it's no chance, right?

And it quite literally means these companies have no chance of survival.

Why?

Well, if you're building something complex and you can't get the technology to work, you're going to fail.

Right.

If the team hates each other, you're going to fail.

Maybe you're building this amazing thing and all of a sudden the unit economics weren't what you thought they were going to be.

Right.

You fail.

And so ultimately that is part of venture.

But a certain number of companies will just simply lack the elements to continue.

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