The Past, Present, and Future of Pre-Seed | Charles Hudson, Precursor
About this episode
Charles Hudson discusses the evolution and current state of pre-seed investing with Turner Novak.
Charles Hudson started Precursor Ventures in 2015, and helped create pre-seed as a category. Ten years and hundreds of Day 0 checks later, few investors have backed as many first-time founders, making him the perfect person to talk through the state of the category today. We talk about why this is the hardest moment for pre-seed/seed investing he can remember, why sitting out of bubbles can be more dangerous than joining, how he hands his junior team real money to make their own bets, and urgency and “the last $250k effect”. Thank you to Numeral, Flex, Amplitude, and Merge for supporting this episode. Numeral: The end-to-end platform for sales tax and compliance https://www.numeral.com Flex: Get premium banking and a net 60 day credit card at 0% APY https://home.flex.one/referral/bananacapital Amplitude: AI analytics, all you have to do is ask https://www.amplitude.com Merge: Every modal. One API. Total control. Check out Merge’s Agent Handler. merge.dev/turner Timestamps: (0:00) Is Pre-Seed dead? (4:15) Do round names matter anymore? (12:27) Multi-stage signaling risk doesn’t exist (16:42) Smart LP’s love multi-stage funds (22:03) Is the traditional Seed model broken? (26:31)…
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Numeral, Flex, Amplitude, Merge
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