Episode #39: Adopting Parent Investors, The Art of Curating Fund Manager Investment Opportunities, AI Product Pricing Today
Welcome back to The Learning Corner by Precursor, hosted by Mia Farnham and Charles Hudson. After a quick break for the Fourth of July, we’re back with a jam-packed episode covering some of the most thought-provoking conversations in early-stage venture.
In this episode:
We explore the concept ...
Episode #48: VCs are Cockroaches, Engineers Fixing Vibe-Coded Projects, Serial Entrepreneurs Continue to be Favored
This week on The Learning Corner, Mia and Charles explore three compelling venture capital topics: (1) Micah Rosenbloom's comparison of VCs to "cockroaches" and why fund consolidation remains unlikely despite market pressures, (2) the emerging trend of software engineers being paid to fix AI-gene...
Staying Small Despite Billion-Dollar Backings with Micah Rosenbloom
Micah Rosenbloom is a Managing Partner at Founder Collective, a firm dedicated to seed investing and, crucially, to keeping their fund sizes below $100 million. Micah talks with Beezer Clarkson, Partner at Sapphire Partners, and Nick Chirls, Partner at Asylum Ventures, to discuss Founder Collecti...
What Venture's Top Voices Expect Next in AI
2025 was, undoubtedly, the year of AI. In the first episode of 2026 Beezer Clarkson, Partner at Sapphire Partners, and Nick Chirls, Partner at Asylum Ventures revisit some of their favorite moments from the year before to see what the top voices in VC saw as emerging AI trendlines and how the ven...
Episode #70: The VC Returns Suck Narrative, Venture's Nifty Fifty Moment, The Four Approaches to Early Stage Venture
This week on The Learning Corner, Micah Rosenbloom from Founder Collective challenges the viral narrative that VC returns suck and asks whether we are all just spinning data to fit our own models. Jeff Weinstein draws a striking parallel between today's AI funding frenzy and the Nifty Fifty stock...
Episode #75: Domain Expertise in Vertical AI, The Changing Math of Seed Investing, A Generation of Cheaters
This week we are diving into whether domain expertise is becoming more important in Vertical AI, not less, breaking down new data from The Euclid Ventures team that challenges the narrative that youth and technical ability are all you need to build a winning company. We then get into Micah Rosenb...
Micah Rosenbloom | Founder Collective - On firm building, the end of vibes investing, and why it's fricking random
Micah Rosenbloom is a General Partner at Founder Collective, one of the original true seed funds, founded in 2009 before seed was even a recognized category.
Before he was a VC, Micah co-founded three companies, including Brontes Technologies, which was acquired by 3M. He then spent four years in...
Has venture capital lost the plot?
Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape.
Welcome back to Venture Unlocked, the podcast that takes you inside the business of venture capital. I’m your host, Samir Kaji.
My guest today is Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Par...
519. Don't Play the Game on the Field, What the 500 Largest Exits Tell Us, How and When to Sell Secondary, and VC's Identity Crisis (Micah Rosenbloom)
Micah Rosenbloom of Founder Collective joins Nick to discuss Don't Play the Game on the Field, What the 500 Largest Exits Tell Us, How and When to Sell Secondary, and VC's Identity Crisis. In this episode we cover:
Investment Patterns and Risk Management
Strategic Deviations in Investing ...
Investor Stories 497: Passing on Snapchat, Canva, and Hugging Face: The Rules of Thumb That Cost VCs Billions (Vaidya, Fubini and Patel, Rosenbloom)
On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured:
Vivek Vaidya of super{set}
Ross Fubini and Manish Patel of XYZ Venture Capital
Micah Rosenbloom of Founder Collective
Each investor highlights a situation where they decided not to invest, why they pa...
