Alex Wilhelm

I had to see if I was in near-term employment trouble, so I ran a little test with the ChatGPT model. Here are the results.

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital focused podcast where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Today we have something a bit different for you. In light of the never-ending Musk-Twitter saga, and news that the new social media CEO had cut its corporate…

Today at TechCrunch’s crypto-focused event in Miami, OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer discussed his business and the future market for non-fungible tokens. The digital assets, better known by the acronym “NFTs,” saw their stock rise during the 2021-era crypto boom. NFTs became synonymous with neo-wealth b…

It’s becoming clearer that whatever the hell happened in the past couple of years no new-normal. It was just a party that has since wound down.

Really, what would the bottom be for software valuations? Given that no one thought we would get this far, I am loath to say that we’ve hit it.

A few weeks back, TechCrunch caught up with Terry Myerson and others from the Truveta team to chat through an important product update from the company. This publication has covered Truveta for some time now, curious about its objectives as a business that has a strong public-health component, and…

It’s worth asking the question lurking at the back of the entire software revaluation saga: Were we using the right valuation metrics all along?

When we see public market investors react warmly to smaller-cap tech companies’ results, we get a vibe for how unicorns might be valued if they go public.

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Stocks are mixed around the world, notably lower in China on the back of some negative economic data, and down in the United States ahead of what is expected to b…

The lessons of UserTesting’s sale to private equity are pretty simple and not great for yet-private unicorns.

We are back from Disrupt, which means we’re picking up the pieces of our work lives, getting back on track.

Fintech fundraising has fallen along with the rest of the venture activity. But the portion of VC activity that fintech can lay claim to is also in decline.

Let’s talk crypto venture capital activity, NFT activity, price changes, DeFi, and, finally, September trading data.

We’re gearing up to take the show on the road shortly, but don’t worry about that for now. Service will continue as usual until we kick off Disrupt.

New Q3 2022 data from PitchBook on venture capital aggregates in the U.S. make it a bit hard to square reality with the leading narrative.

Is Elon Musk paying a lot for Twitter in terms of what rival companies are worth?

How healthy does the consumer fintech market look from a trading and investing perspective following the summer lull?

Instacart’s willingness to go public this year is now slightly better understood after The Wall Street Journal reported that it isn’t planning on a mega-fundraise when it does list.

Does open source software (OSS) lead to businesses that by nature pursue a product-led growth (PLG) model?