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The Learning Corner by Precursor

Mia Farnham, Charles Hudson

Welcome to the Learning Corner, a weekly Precursor Ventures podcast, where members of the Precursor team walk through their favorite articles and news snippets across the venture ecosystem.

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Episode #100: 300 Reads Later, Are VC Skills Obsolete?, Making Venture Exciting Again 2026-10-22 · 22m
Episode #99: The Death of VC’s Short Kings, Seed Valuations Need a Correction 2026-10-15 · 25m
Episode #98: Relevance Runway vs Cash Runway, 20VC Venky Ganesan Episode Breakdown On Seed Being An Option 2026-10-08 · 23m
Episode #97: Rob Go of NextView on Seed VC's Existential Crisis 2026-10-01 · 22m
Episode #96: a16z's College Alternative, Running From the Luxury Bus, Is the Music About to Stop? 2026-09-24 · 22m
Episode #95: The Fool's Gold Problem, Dario's "We Must Pace the Frontier" 2026-09-17 · 22m
Episode #94: The Middle Ground Is Gone, Funded Teams With No Plan, Being Legible to Capital 2026-09-10 · 19m
Episode #93: Vertical AI Today with Nic Poulos of Euclid Ventures 2026-09-03 · 23m
Episode #92: Working for Your AI Agent, Engineering Leaders Head for the Exit, What Capital Wants Now 2026-08-27 · 27m
Episode #91: AI Rocketship or Left for Dead, The Worst VC Introduction, To Be or To Do 2026-08-20 · 21m
Episode #90: Is Series A Broken?, Are Winners Ever Found In Hype Markets?, The Power Of The Builder Archetype 2026-08-13 · 23m
Episode #89: Industrializing the Blame Game, VC-Backed Startups and Fraud, Will You Quit on Me? 2026-08-06 · 27m
Episode #88: Supporting Young Founders Well, YC's Fall Requests For Startups, Why Labs Say Frontier Not Foundation 2026-07-30 · 25m
Episode #87: Patience Pays In Venture, Why Humans Beat AI, Managing Your Agent Workforce 2026-07-23 · 26m
Episode #86: Paying For AI Twice, Sierra's Bet On One AI Agent, Data's Next Trillion Dollar Category, NY Halts Data Centers 2026-07-16 · 19m
Episode #85: Venture's Cognitive Dissonance Moment, Cold Pitches Actually Work, Building Your Moat Later 2026-07-09 · 18m
Episode #84: Convicted vs. Disciplined Healthcare VCs, The Capitalist Multiverse, The Untrainable 2026-06-25 · 22m
Episode #83: Tony Fadell on Building Products That Last, SAFE Adjusted TVPI, Kirkland's $500M AI Bet 2026-06-11 · 21m
Episode #82: What Will Be Scarce in an AI World, The Real Cost of Vibe Coding, The End of the Software Engineer 2026-06-04 · 24m
Episode #81: Does Your Boss Have AI Brain?, Career Bets That Compound, Too Much Is Happening Too Fast 2026-05-28 · 28m
Episode #80: Narrative Above All, The Job Market Signal Collapsed, IC Work Is the New Career Flex, OpenAI Files for IPO 2026-05-21 · 21m
Episode #79: Networking Is Mostly Cope, AI Is Changing What Skills Matter, CEO AI Psychosis 2026-05-14 · 20m
Episode #78: Owning Your AI Agents, When Your VC Leaves, Are You Actually AI-Native? 2026-05-07 · 23m
Episode #77: The Broken Seed Model, YC's Revenue Honesty Rules, China Blocks Meta's Manus Deal 2026-04-30 · 18m
Episode #76: My Biggest Founder Regret, Fundamental Truths in VC, SpaceX Cursor Partnership 2026-04-23 · 20m
Episode #75: Domain Expertise in Vertical AI, The Changing Math of Seed Investing, A Generation of Cheaters 2026-04-16 · 19m
Episode #74: Round Names Are Dead, How To Ask For Advice, Private Wealth Goes Direct 2026-04-09 · 21m
Episode #73: Startups Need Better Stories, The Value-Add LP Era, Agile Funding Is Back 2026-04-02 · 20m
Episode #72: Delve's Compliance Fraud, Has Startup Advice Ever Worked, OpenAI Refocuses 2026-03-26 · 21m
Episode #71: Symbolic Capitalism and the Attention Game, Token Output as a Performance KPI, Choosing Your Intellectual Shoulders 2026-03-19 · 23m
Episode #70: The VC Returns Suck Narrative, Venture's Nifty Fifty Moment, The Four Approaches to Early Stage Venture 2026-03-12 · 20m
Episode #69: Anthropic's Safety Reckoning, Jack Dorsey Cuts Block in Half, The Venture Consensus Addiction 2026-03-05 · 22m
Episode #68: The 2028 AI Crisis Memo, Rethinking Series A, 2021 Founders Hitting Reset 2026-02-26 · 21m
Episode #67: Always In The Office, Bubbles vs. Balloons, Tool Shaped Objects 2026-02-19 · 27m
Episode #66: AI Fatigue Is Real, Patient Capital Will Eat VC, Building a GP Reference List 2026-02-12 · 23m
Episode #65: I See Dead VCs, Tech Media Echo Chambers, VC-Backed Startups' Status Collapse 2026-02-05 · 26m
Episode #64: Hubristic Fundraising's Hidden Costs, VCs Can't Win Talent, SaaS Death Greatly Exaggerated 2026-01-29 · 21m
Episode #63: Sequoia Breaks Portfolio Conflict Rules, Pre-Seed Is Dead?, FAANG to Startup Regret 2026-01-22 · 23m
Episode #62: Firm Over Fund, Relevance Decays, The Privilege of Belief 2026-01-15 · 19m
Episode #61: AI-Generated Reddit Hoax, Tech Career Crisis, Venture FOMO Reality 2026-01-08 · 22m
Episode #60: The 2025 Venture Review feat. Hunter Walk (Homebrew, Screendoor) and Peter Walker (Carta) 2025-12-18 · 33m
Episode #59: Pivots Rarely Work, Missionary Founders, Does Seattle Hate AI? 2025-12-11 · 18m
Episode #58: Charles Schwab Acquisition of Forge Global, Holding "Venture Zombies" Forever, What Is Burnout Actually? 2025-12-04 · 24m
Episode #57: Founder update signals, AI is a bubble and that's good and bad, YC's call to build "fundable" companies 2025-11-20 · 17m
Episode #56: VC is Hard, Unconcentrated Fund Math, Cluely Growth Updates 2025-11-13 · 17m
Episode #55: Unsafe SAFEs, 15 Charts on the Future of VC, Big CPG Leveraging Gen AI, Sequoia Changes Guards 2025-11-06 · 22m
Episode #54: Teaching Students to Challenge AI, Is AI The New Shadow Bank? 2025-10-30 · 16m
Episode #53: The Magic of DTC, Power of Iteration Speed, Secondaries in Term Sheets 2025-10-23 · 21m
Episode #52: Goldman Sachs Acquires Industry Ventures, Is AI Causing Brain Obesity?, Investing In A Friend's Company 2025-10-16 · 23m
Episode #51: Three Venture Paths, When Great People Leave, Solo Founders 2025-10-09 · 19m
Episode #50: What Does ARR Mean?, High Agency in Silicon Valley, Debt Fueling The Next AI Wave 2025-10-02 · 24m
Episode #49: Making Money on AI, Consumer Deserves Attention from Investors, Nvidia Invests in OpenAI 2025-09-25 · 18m
Episode #48: VCs are Cockroaches, Engineers Fixing Vibe-Coded Projects, Serial Entrepreneurs Continue to be Favored 2025-09-18 · 20m
Episode #47: We Are The Enemy, The AI Productivity Paradox, Anthropic's Author Class Action 2025-09-11 · 18m
Episode #46: AI Troubles for Taco Bell, Is Non-Consensus Dangerous, Are Software Economics Going Off a Cliff with AI 2025-09-04 · 19m
Episode #45: Hire the experimenters, Lessons from "failed" enterprise AI pilots, Valuations soar past the 2021 bubble 2025-08-28 · 20m
Episode #44: Founding Engineers Are Impossible To Hire, Regulators Come For AI Therapy Chatbots, What VCs Get Wrong About Hiring 2025-08-21 · 26m
Episode #43: Two Silicon Valley Modalities, Are VCs Independent Thinkers?, 20 Somethings Swarming SF 2025-08-07 · 25m
Episode #42: The "Winners" in AI Today, DaaS Is Not Venture Backable, Seed Rounds Grow As Startups Shrink 2025-07-31 · 19m
Episode #41: Investor to Fund Manager, Picking the RIGHT Capital, Seed Is Experiencing A Crisis 2025-07-24 · 25m
Episode #40: Windsurf "Blitzhire", Demystifying Venture Speak, Founders Running "Fast and Loose" 2025-07-17 · 22m
Episode #39: Adopting Parent Investors, The Art of Curating Fund Manager Investment Opportunities, AI Product Pricing Today 2025-07-10 · 24m
Episode #38: First Round Capital Reflections and How Fundraising and Seeking an Acquisition Opportunity Are Mutually Exclusive 2025-06-26 · 20m
Episode #37: Bill Gurley's Market Realities, Geo- Arbitrage Investing, The Acquihire Wave 2025-06-20 · 20m
Episode #36: Founder Optimism, Seed Math Is Broken, Aumni Venture Beacon Report 2025-06-12 · 20m
Episode #35: A Founder's Postmortem, Teachers And The AI Dilemma, Emerging GTM Across AI 2025-06-05 · 21m
Episode #34: AI’s Labor Problem, Bridge Round Realities & Big Tech’s Acqui-License Deals 2025-05-29 · 20m
Episode #33: Do $1B Outcomes Matter?, Vibe Investing, The Agentic Web and The Original Sin 2025-05-22 · 20m
Episode #32: Is AI Coming For Your Job?, Myths About AI Native Startups, Specialist vs. Generalist Investing 2025-05-15 · 17m
Episode #31: Do We Need a VC Prenup?, Lightspeed Becomes an RIA, Financing the AI Revolution 2025-05-08 · 20m
Episode #30: Pre-IPO Company Talent Wars, Winning Fast as Fund Managers, Tariff Impact on Startup/Early Stage VC 2025-05-01 · 20m
Episode #29: Agentic Hunger Games, What's an Effective Board Meeting?, The Future of Angel Investing 2025-04-24 · 21m
Episode #28: Fund 1 Over Performance Math, Media and Content Runs VC, Fund Manager Patience 2025-04-17 · 20m
Episode #27: Shopify's "Leaked" CEO Memo, Tourist Founders, Senior Partners Leaving Established Firms 2025-04-10 · 20m
Episode #26: Bradley Tusk Says VC Is Dead, Investor Learnings From The Last Overheated Market 2025-04-03 · 17m
Episode #25: Startup Media Hype Circles, 11x Tech Crunch Article, Market Arbitrage in Venture 2025-03-27 · 24m
Episode #24: LP POV on Secondaries, CoreWeave/NVIDIA Growth Loop, Questioning Traditional Reserves Strategies 2025-03-20 · 17m
Episode #23: Unique Revenue Channels For Vertical AI, Ghosting in Venture, Is Data Driven VC Over? 2025-03-13 · 25m
Episode #22: Secondaries Across Venture, Stripe's Tender Offer, Knowing How Much Is Too Much To Fundraise 2025-03-06 · 22m
Episode #21: Anthropic's Latest Raise, Internal Turf Wars in Big Tech, IPO Alternatives In Venture 2025-02-27 · 20m
Episode #20: AgTech and Venture Capital, Signs of a Failing Company, What The Heck Does Pre-Seed Even Mean? 2025-02-20 · 19m
Episode #19: Venture Capital 3.0, Deciphering Early Stage Traction, 90's Tech Bubble vs. Current AI Valuations 2025-02-13 · 20m
Episode #18: Founders Quitting vs Stopping, The Rise of Spinout VC Funds, AngelList State of Venture Report 2025-02-06 · 19m
Episode #17: DeepSeek, Importance of Running a Fundraising Auction, Growing Seed Round Sizes 2025-01-30 · 20m
Episode #64: Hubristic Fundraising's Hidden Costs, VCs Can't Win Talent, SaaS Death Greatly Exaggerated 2025-01-29 · 21m
Episode #16: Pre-Seed/Seed M&A Activity, Solo Founders, Harvey $3B Raise, Fund Performance Recalibrations 2025-01-23 · 20m
Episode #15: Andrea Funsten, Robert Vinall, Manny Medina 2025-01-17 · 19m
Episode #14: The Information, TechCrunch, LifeSciVC (shared by Jay Ripley) 2025-01-10 · 20m
Episode #13: Rob Go, Zain Rizavi, New York Times 2024-12-20 · 20m
Episode #12: Peter Walker, Benedikt Langer, Aaron Levie 2024-12-13 · 22m
Episode #11: Chris Neumann, Forbes, The Economist 2024-12-06 · 20m
Episode #10: Euclid Insights, Benedict Evans 2024-11-29 · 20m
Episode #9: Jamin Ball, Hunter Walk, Menlo Ventures 2024-11-22 · 20m
Episode #8: Bowery Farms, Sapphire Partners, Patricia Halfen Wexler 2024-11-15 · 24m
Episode #7: Ubiquity Ventures, WSJ, Equal Ventures 2024-11-08 · 19m
Episode #6: Pitchbook NVCA Venture Monitor Q3 2024 Report 2024-11-01 · 18m
Episode #5: Euclid Insights, Strictly VC 2024-10-25 · 18m
Episode #4: David Clark from VenCap International, Continuation Funds by TechCrunch, Neal Sarraf from Forum Ventures 2024-10-18 · 21m
Episode #3: Nnamdi Iregbulem, Jordan Nel, The New York Times 2024-10-11 · 22m
Episode #2: Anthony Kwesi Hagan, Euclid Insights, Sarah Tavel's Newsletter 2024-10-04 · 22m
Episode #1: Welcome To The Learning Corner 2024-09-26 · 31m
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