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The Learning Corner by Precursor

Mia Farnham, Charles Hudson

Welcome to the Learning Corner, a weekly Precursor Ventures podcast, where members of the Precursor team walk through their favorite articles and news snippets across the venture ecosystem.

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103 episodes

  1. Episode #102: The 10 Person AI Pilled Startup, The McDonaldization of VC, "Investors Didn't Understand Us" 22:50
  2. Episode #101: Anthropic Files Its S1, Owning GPUs Isn't Compute, Is Venture Just Closet Indexing? 23:18
  3. Episode #100: 300 Reads Later, Are VC Skills Obsolete?, Making Venture Exciting Again 22:18
  4. Episode #99: The Death of VC’s Short Kings, Seed Valuations Need a Correction 24:49
  5. Episode #98: Relevance Runway vs Cash Runway, 20VC Venky Ganesan Episode Breakdown On Seed Being An Option 23:24
  6. Episode #97: Rob Go of NextView on Seed VC's Existential Crisis 21:32
  7. Episode #96: a16z's College Alternative, Running From the Luxury Bus, Is the Music About to Stop? 22:14
  8. Episode #95: The Fool's Gold Problem, Dario's "We Must Pace the Frontier" 22:26
  9. Episode #94: The Middle Ground Is Gone, Funded Teams With No Plan, Being Legible to Capital 19:07
  10. Episode #93: Vertical AI Today with Nic Poulos of Euclid Ventures 23:02
  11. Episode #92: Working for Your AI Agent, Engineering Leaders Head for the Exit, What Capital Wants Now 27:10
  12. Episode #91: AI Rocketship or Left for Dead, The Worst VC Introduction, To Be or To Do 20:47
  13. Episode #90: Is Series A Broken?, Are Winners Ever Found In Hype Markets?, The Power Of The Builder Archetype 23:19
  14. Episode #89: Industrializing the Blame Game, VC-Backed Startups and Fraud, Will You Quit on Me? 26:31
  15. Episode #88: Supporting Young Founders Well, YC's Fall Requests For Startups, Why Labs Say Frontier Not Foundation 25:24
  16. Episode #87: Patience Pays In Venture, Why Humans Beat AI, Managing Your Agent Workforce 26:16
  17. Episode #86: Paying For AI Twice, Sierra's Bet On One AI Agent, Data's Next Trillion Dollar Category, NY Halts Data Centers 19:09
  18. Episode #85: Venture's Cognitive Dissonance Moment, Cold Pitches Actually Work, Building Your Moat Later 18:03
  19. Episode #84: Convicted vs. Disciplined Healthcare VCs, The Capitalist Multiverse, The Untrainable 22:09
  20. Episode #83: Tony Fadell on Building Products That Last, SAFE Adjusted TVPI, Kirkland's $500M AI Bet 21:26
  21. Episode #82: What Will Be Scarce in an AI World, The Real Cost of Vibe Coding, The End of the Software Engineer 23:40
  22. Episode #81: Does Your Boss Have AI Brain?, Career Bets That Compound, Too Much Is Happening Too Fast 27:47
  23. Episode #80: Narrative Above All, The Job Market Signal Collapsed, IC Work Is the New Career Flex, OpenAI Files for IPO 21:09
  24. Episode #79: Networking Is Mostly Cope, AI Is Changing What Skills Matter, CEO AI Psychosis 20:06
  25. Episode #78: Owning Your AI Agents, When Your VC Leaves, Are You Actually AI-Native? 22:38
  26. Episode #77: The Broken Seed Model, YC's Revenue Honesty Rules, China Blocks Meta's Manus Deal 18:16
  27. Episode #76: My Biggest Founder Regret, Fundamental Truths in VC, SpaceX Cursor Partnership 20:10
  28. Episode #75: Domain Expertise in Vertical AI, The Changing Math of Seed Investing, A Generation of Cheaters 18:51
  29. Episode #74: Round Names Are Dead, How To Ask For Advice, Private Wealth Goes Direct 21:14
  30. Episode #73: Startups Need Better Stories, The Value-Add LP Era, Agile Funding Is Back 20:04
  31. Episode #72: Delve's Compliance Fraud, Has Startup Advice Ever Worked, OpenAI Refocuses 21:25
  32. Episode #71: Symbolic Capitalism and the Attention Game, Token Output as a Performance KPI, Choosing Your Intellectual Shoulders 23:26
  33. Episode #70: The VC Returns Suck Narrative, Venture's Nifty Fifty Moment, The Four Approaches to Early Stage Venture 20:23
  34. Episode #69: Anthropic's Safety Reckoning, Jack Dorsey Cuts Block in Half, The Venture Consensus Addiction 22:24
  35. Episode #68: The 2028 AI Crisis Memo, Rethinking Series A, 2021 Founders Hitting Reset 20:53
  36. Episode #67: Always In The Office, Bubbles vs. Balloons, Tool Shaped Objects 27:25
  37. Episode #66: AI Fatigue Is Real, Patient Capital Will Eat VC, Building a GP Reference List 22:43
  38. Episode #65: I See Dead VCs, Tech Media Echo Chambers, VC-Backed Startups' Status Collapse 25:59
  39. Episode #64: Hubristic Fundraising's Hidden Costs, VCs Can't Win Talent, SaaS Death Greatly Exaggerated 20:31
  40. Episode #63: Sequoia Breaks Portfolio Conflict Rules, Pre-Seed Is Dead?, FAANG to Startup Regret 23:06
  41. Episode #62: Firm Over Fund, Relevance Decays, The Privilege of Belief 19:28
  42. Episode #61: AI-Generated Reddit Hoax, Tech Career Crisis, Venture FOMO Reality 21:53
  43. Episode #60: The 2025 Venture Review feat. Hunter Walk (Homebrew, Screendoor) and Peter Walker (Carta) 32:47
  44. Episode #59: Pivots Rarely Work, Missionary Founders, Does Seattle Hate AI? 17:50
  45. Episode #58: Charles Schwab Acquisition of Forge Global, Holding "Venture Zombies" Forever, What Is Burnout Actually? 24:19
  46. Episode #57: Founder update signals, AI is a bubble and that's good and bad, YC's call to build "fundable" companies 17:23
  47. Episode #56: VC is Hard, Unconcentrated Fund Math, Cluely Growth Updates 17:07
  48. Episode #55: Unsafe SAFEs, 15 Charts on the Future of VC, Big CPG Leveraging Gen AI, Sequoia Changes Guards 21:33
  49. Episode #54: Teaching Students to Challenge AI, Is AI The New Shadow Bank? 15:37
  50. Episode #53: The Magic of DTC, Power of Iteration Speed, Secondaries in Term Sheets 20:40