Charles HudsonFounder and Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

Is the startup boom among 20-somethings in SF really different this time?

9 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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A short interview-style conversation between Marina and Charles Hudson discussing a surge of young founders in San Francisco amid the AI era. Hudson compares the current trend to the Internet 1.0 boom of the 2000s, reporting that it feels similar based on his Stanford-era experience with classmates dropping out to start companies.

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A notable quote from an undergraduate Stanford student was quote it's kind of this AI inflection point where it felt like almost everyone I knew at Stanford was dropping out to co found a company. Charles, I wanted to get your honest opinion about this massive wave of younger founders opening up shop in SF and also see if it resembled any sort of boom during the 2000s. Or does this feel palpably different?
No, it feels the same. Well, the funny thing is, Marina and I were talking about this earlier this week because I was a college student during the Internet 1.0 boom at Stanford and my classmates were dropping out of school to start companies. I lived in a house with a bunch of guys and we thought about dropping out of school to start a company and we decided not to do it. We had eight co we.