It’s Juneteenth, and instead of listing the same statistics we have before about the sorry state of DEI in venture, I thought it better to put the macro aside, and focus on one investor: Charles Hudson, Precursor Ventures founder and managing partner, a VC who’s rethinking the status quo.
“We as a firm decided we’re not going to participate in ‘woe is me journalism’ because I think it’s bad for the founders,” said Hudson, on the phone while driving his son to soccer camp earlier this week. “I really do think continually being hammered with these messages isn’t useful for them. We’ve tried to focus on the positive side of it, the things you can control as a founder, not the random investment decisions any individual venture capitalist might make.”
