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Alex Pall

Co-Founder & General Partner, Mantis VC · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alex Pall is an artist best known as one half of the electronic-pop duo The Chainsmokers. In venture capital, he co-founded Mantis VC, raising multiple institutional early-stage funds to back startups including Kalshi, Chainguard, and FitOn.

6statements → 2claims → 1claims resolved → 3.83/5average certainty → 1.83/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated → 6said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 2 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 assertions · 2 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Alex argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Alex Pall: None of The Chainsmokers' angel investments have gone to zero
“None of our investments have gone to zero yet, but it's just because we haven't been around long enough.”
Alex Pall Sep 21, 2020 ▶ 6:31 20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences

How they sound: speaking style how? →

306 words/min while actually speaking · 0.4 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Alex Pall: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 12 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 2,754 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Alex Pall is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 1 rated episode:

host pushback ▾ 2/10
pushed back at the host 1/10
setup questions received 85%

Everything Alex Pall said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Alex Pall: Silicon Valley tech workers constantly complain about San Francisco
“I would probably, and this is on behalf of all of our friends we've spoken to in Silicon Valley, I feel like we want to remove them from Silicon Valley and move them somewhere else. Everyone just complains about San Francisco and the culture and everything the…”
Alex Pall Sep 21, 2020 ▶ 22:48 20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences
Disclosure
Alex Pall: The Chainsmokers secured preferred terms in competitive startup deals
“We were seeing that we were getting preferred terms into deals that were hot that other people couldn't get into.”
Alex Pall Sep 21, 2020 ▶ 7:00 20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences
Insight
Alex Pall: Contradictory advice from top founders proves no one knows everything
“We've spoken to enough incredibly successful people over the last three months. That, like, everyone begins to contradict themselves. Funny way. You know, in the beginning, you're like, alright, alright, I'm thinking about this the right way, and then, like, t…”
Alex Pall Sep 21, 2020 ▶ 8:56 20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences
Insight
Alex Pall: Startups wanting only social media posts are a red flag
“So obviously there's the press element and things like that, but to us, it's a red flag when a company's like, hey, can you just like post us on social media?”
Alex Pall Sep 21, 2020 ▶ 11:36 20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences
Disclosure
Alex Pall: Ember was one of The Chainsmokers' first startup investments
“Ember was one of the first companies we actually invested in, if not the first, and they're actually doing terrific”
Alex Pall Sep 21, 2020 ▶ 6:23 20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences
Assertion Supported
Alex Pall: None of The Chainsmokers' angel investments have gone to zero
“None of our investments have gone to zero yet, but it's just because we haven't been around long enough.”
Alex Pall Sep 21, 2020 ▶ 6:31 20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences

The other half of the tape: Alex Pall's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 5 times in 2 episodes on 20VC. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about Alex Pall, by other people (1)

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Drew Taggart: Alex Pall relentlessly hassles founders until they explicitly reject him
“Alex's superpower, too, is he's the world's greatest haggler, and he'll just hassle people. Like, if you say you're like, yeah, we're interested in having you in this round, you're not gonna not hear from Alex once or twice a day until you, like, officially pa…”
Drew Taggart Sep 21, 2020 ▶ 17:19 20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Dealing with Vulnerability and Insecurity Today & How Music and Venture Compare; The Similarities and Differences

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2026 3 mentions in 1 episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: The Chainsmokers on Raising Their First $35M Fund and Entering The World of Venture, Sep 21, 2020 9m
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