Charles HudsonFounder and Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

When to know what advice is work TAKING

19 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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Charles Hudson delivers a recorded presentation about evaluating startup teams, especially at the pre-seed stage. He emphasizes that team dynamics often matter more than traction metrics, and that discussing cofounder quality is delicate because judgments are subjective and founders may be defensive.

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And I gave this presentation yesterday and a lot of people came up to me like this was really helpful and I was like it's a good reminder to me Mia that you and I do this every day all day. We talk to thousands of founders every year and there's still a lot of people who don't really know and in some cases the information they're getting is guiding them towards some traction metric or some presentation tactic that may or may not work and I told the audience yesterday a lot of it is about the team especially at pre seed and talking about people's teams is a delicate subject because you're oftentimes making subjective decisions about people you don't know very well you also haven't spent a ton of time with and not everybody wants to hear that you think their co founder is weak not everybody wants to hear that like hey I don't think the two of you are the right people to go after this opportunity and I.