<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, alsop louie partners]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, alsop louie partners]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/alsoplouiepartners http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/alsoplouiepartners <![CDATA[Stewart Alsop's sausagefest]]> No one quite understood why venture capitalist Stewart Alsop was handing out salamis at Alsop Louie Partners' annual party at Tres Agaves Tuesday night. Power investors in the crowd: Ann Winblad and Ron Conway. The boring business gossip: Sequoia's funereal presentation to entrepreneurs on the coming financial apocalypse. The more interesting personal gossip: Alsop is dating Robin Wolaner, the founder of Parenting magazine — see, everyone's a founder of something in the Valley! — and the author of CEO confessional Naked in the Boardroom. (Since I first wrote this post, Wolaner emailed me to mention that she's also, much more recently, the founder of TeeBeeDee, a social networking website.)

Alsop hastened to clarify to partygoers that Wolaner is his "no. 1 girlfriend." Why the enumeration? He still has a habit of picking up other women. I mean that literally. I saw him pick a blonde girl off the floor and give her a full-body hug at the party. That's leverage, of some kind or another. I took one of Stewart's sausages to give to the host at my next party.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5063546&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Alsop Louie Partners attempts to look hip, fails]]> Is it just me, or do venture capitalists Stewart Alsop and Gilman Louie of Alsop Louie Partners, pictured here in matching leather jackets, remind anyone else of the leather-suit-buying wannabe rock stars Bret and Jemaine from HBO's "Flight of the Conchords"?

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