How partners at Google parent Alphabet’s growth fund CapitalG are tackling the downturn

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It’s a quiet Monday in the CapitalG offices as Jesse Wedler, CapitalG’s newest general partner, sits back in a chair in a conference room overlooking the Oakland Bay Bridge, hands behind his neck, and laughs.

“Our whole team is going through pipeline building—which is funny. Whenever someone says we’re pipeline building, you can tell that deal activity is slow,” Wedler says.