Charles HudsonFounder and Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

Are VCs truly independent thinkers?

7 Aug 2025 · 0 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video in which investor Charles Hudson explains his preference for backing founders who lack abundant access to capital and who pursue unconventional, non-consensus ideas. He notes a tension where audiences claim to want 'weird and wonderful' startups but often reject ideas that are too unusual.

For me, the interesting companies are the ones where the founder doesn't have sort of all that access to capital and where the idea isn't intrinsically interesting or obvious or consensus good. And we do those companies all the time. And I find to your point, Mia, everyone's like, I want to see the things that are weird and wonderful and different. And then you show them and they're like, oh, but not that weird.