Charles HudsonFounder and Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

The Optimism Discount #venturecapitalpodcast #duet#founder #venturecapital

27 Jan 2025 · 0 min

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A brief spoken excerpt from Charles Hudson (YouTube, Jan 27, 2025) describing an "optimism discount": he observed in 2023–2024 that being conservative in a broadly optimistic evaluation environment causes conservative positions to be treated as if they were optimistic, making it hard to signal genuine conservatism and causing conservative actions to be discounted.

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