Charles HudsonFounder and Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

What Happens When Your Champion at a VC Firm Leaves?

13 Jul 2025 · 0 min

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Short YouTube clip with Charles Hudson offering practical advice for founders and newcomers when a VC firm partner (their champion) leaves. Key points in this chunk: don’t try to imitate the departing person—be yourself—and recognize that losing a founder’s advocate at a firm is a significant event (example: a founder chose a firm for one partner who then left).

I do think it's more important than ever to think about what you're going to do. And I think the one thing that Micah said of all the things that I think is really important is don't try to be the person you replaced. Just come in and be yourself. And also just recognize that it's probably a big deal for the founder to lose their advocate. I have a founder in our portfolio where the person she chose a firm literally to work with one very specific partner, and that partner left and.