Short conversational excerpt from a Precursor Ventures YouTube video 'Is recruiting in VC broken?' (2026-01-30) contrasting network-driven recruiting—proactive outreach and ecosystem engagement to bring candidates at the right time—with an alternative approach of hiring every great person encountered, which can over-index on a single archetype and leave team gaps.
And so I think most people hear recruiting, and they think I'm just, like, blindly sending LinkedIn messages. That's. That's not what it is. That's not it. There's a lot of activities that go into recruiting, and this person has this knack for having good people show up at the right time. I think it's because they're always thinking about, how do I get our recruiting needs out into my network in the ecosystem, and how do I find people who might be a good fit for our company?
I think that's a good balance, because I've also seen some folks take a different route, which they just, when they meet great people, regardless of what their need is, they just hire them. Which I think you can do that to a point. And then you might have over index on a specific archetype of person and leave, like, a massive hole of the.
