Charles Hudson explains how the venture capital stack reshapes every decade. Fundless SPVs now let individuals pool $5-10 million for Series B and C rounds, and Hudson wants to make angel investing more attractive to top talent.
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It's like running a venture fund with no management fees. It's pretty tough. But I will say the irony is the thing that has endured that I wasn't sure would endure, is I meet so many of these fundless SPV people who are able to cobble together 5 to 10 million dollars through hustle and through relationships to put into Series B and C stage companies and like that has proven to be a much more enduring part of the capital stack. So that's I think the interesting thing about our business is the capital stack shifts every 10 years. We got seed and that kind of unsettled things. Then we got pre seed and an unset things. And I think we're going through another unsettling right now as these big venture funds get get larger. And I really hope we can find a way to make angel investing lucrative and interesting to good people.