Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures) - Breaking the Venture Capital Mold

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Charles Hudson is the founder and managing partner of Precursor Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in the first institutional round of investment for the most promising software and hardware companies. Under his leadership, Precursor Ventures has raised four funds and has over $175 million under management. He has invested in 250 companies and supported more than 400 founders, including the teams behind Clearco, Juniper Square, The Athletic, Incredible Health, Carrot, and Pair Eyewear. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Hudson discusses his views on the structural inequities in the venture capital industry and how he thinks people in the industry can work to create more access to funding for founders who don’t fit the traditional mold.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:05.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series.
0:09.0	Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.
0:13.0	Welcome Stanford and YouTube communities to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader seminar at Stanford University.
0:20.0	I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the Management Science and Engineering Department at Stanford
0:25.5	and the Director of Alchemist and Accelerator for Enterprise Startups.
0:28.9	The Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series is brought to you by basis, the Business Association
0:33.9	of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students and STVP, the Stanford Entrepreneurship, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center.
0:41.3	Today, we are so lucky to have Charles Hudson here in person today at ETL.
0:47.3	Charles is the founder and managing partner of Precursor Ventures.
0:51.3	How many people have heard of precursor ventures?
0:58.0	By show of hands? Okay, well, you all, the others will know it by the end of today.
1:02.3	Precursor Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco,
1:07.0	focused on investing in the first institutional round of investment for the most promising software and hardware companies. Under his leadership, Precursor Ventures has raised
1:12.2	four funds and has over $175 million under management. Charles has invested in 250 companies
1:19.5	and supported more than 400 founders, including the teams behind Clearco, Juniper Square,
1:25.1	the athletic, incredible health, carrot Pear, Eyewear, and the list
1:28.4	goes on and on.
1:30.2	Prior to founding Precursor Ventures, Charles was a partner at Uncork Capital, a seed stage investor
1:36.2	in internet mobile startups, and the co-founder and CEO of Bionic Panda Games, an Android-focused
1:41.0	mobile games startup. Charles hails from Michigan outside of Detroit,
1:47.0	and he has prior work experience besides venture
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