Peter Walker
30 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 10 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 22, 2024 by Peter Walker · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Aug 22, 2024 neutral
Carta Data: Smallest Seed Rounds Graduate to Series A Less Frequently
“The general gist of it was that if you raise a small seed round, that is less highly correlated with your ability to raise an A round. So it looks to be that the smallest, and there's a bell curve here where, you know, at the smallest seed rounds tend to make …”
Aug 22, 2024 neutral
Nov 8, 2024 neutral
Walker: More founders in 2024 are turning away from venture capital
“I also think, I mean, more this year than any year that I've been focused on startups, there's just a ton of founders who are not as enamored with venture capital overall as a pathway. They're just like, yeah, maybe down the road if I need it, but pretty much …”
Nov 8, 2024 neutral
Nov 8, 2024 bearish
Nov 8, 2024 neutral
Walker: Fundraising will get only slightly easier in 2025
“I'd expect as we look, maybe do a little projection ahead to 2025, like things are probably going to get a little bit better, especially with interest rates or, you know, who knows how this election is going to play into this, et cetera. But My instinct is tha…”
May 22, 2025 neutral
May 22, 2025 negative
Walker: Non-AI Startups Face an Extremely Difficult Venture Market
“It is AI and everything else that applies to valuations, obviously, but it also applies to deal frequency, activity, demand, the like metadata around fundraising, which is if you are not a, how do I put this? Like, I love the term legible or credible startup, …”
Aug 21, 2025 neutral
Aug 21, 2025 neutral
Nov 27, 2025 negative
Walker: Most Founder Inquiries Focus on Non-AI Startup Viability
“The conversation that I'm having more than any other with founders today is if I'm not in this super hot quartile, in this super hot AI circle, do I have a chance? There's like a, I wouldn't call it fatalism, but there's a definite strong negativity or sense t…”
Nov 27, 2025
Nov 27, 2025 negative
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Nov 27, 2025 positive
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Nov 27, 2025 bullish
May 25, 2026 neutral
May 25, 2026 bearish
Walker: Most high-valuation AI seed startups will flop like in 2021
“I have a feeling that what's going to happen is a lot of these companies are going to flop. And we're going to do what we did in 2021 with some major, major outliers that really work. And maybe that's the whole point, but I think there's pain coming for this. …”
May 25, 2026 negative
Walker: Hiring a startup's first three engineers has never been harder
“I think that like, I think hiring the number one, number two, number three engineer of the business has almost never been harder. Because the alternatives are so obviously like hitting you over the head. If you can be a founding engineer at a startup, why coul…”
May 25, 2026 positive
May 25, 2026 bearish
May 25, 2026 bearish
Walker: Runner-Up Startups Face Compounding Risks at Decacorn Scale
“I think historically, even though we said they were winner take all, we never actually believed it. Like you can do pretty well as number two. Now I think that is an open question, especially at the scale that you need to go back again to the Decacorn plus kin…”
May 25, 2026 neutral
May 25, 2026 neutral
May 25, 2026 bearish
May 25, 2026 neutral
Walker: AI foundation model seed startups reach $160M-$200M post-money valuations
“There's always this cohort of mostly candidly AI infrastructure companies that are building foundational models or building like the tech around foundational models, and they are getting valued at Just astronomical numbers. You know, I call it a 160, 170, 182 …”
May 25, 2026 neutral
Walker: Many AI startups are quietly being built for early acquisition
“And I think it's, there's a lot of acquisitions happening right now, mostly for AI talent. So I think there's, candidly, I think there's a lot of companies quietly, not saying it, that are quietly being built to get acquired earlier.”
May 25, 2026 neutral
May 25, 2026 negative
Walker: Solo Founders Are Not Granting Larger Equity Shares to Early Hires
“What I hope is that these companies, what I haven't seen so far, and what I hope happens, is that these companies that are being built by a solo founder grant equity to their early team in a different way. Like there are just higher levels of equity granted to…”