Eric Boduch on AI impact on venture capital
From The Side Quest with Eric Boduch · · GrepBeat
“I think also I guess on that pattern matching note um so much of the uncertainty now is I mean the the uncertainty is everywhere. I feel like investors and founders are flailing a little bit in the sense of like what what are we tethering ourselves to like what are the business metrics? What are like for example the equivalent like rule of 40s that we're tethering ourselves to in an environment like this where now AI has completely changed what outcomes could look like and made the market so asymmetric where I feel like almost now investors are trying to pattern match and to your point failing at that because things are moving at such an unprecedented rate.”
On , Eric Boduch, Cofounder at Pendo, spoke about AI impact on venture capital during The Side Quest with Eric Boduch on GrepBeat.
About Eric Boduch
Eric Boduch, cofounder of Pendo, appeared on the podcast *The Side Quest* on May 5, 2026, where he discussed his venture studio 24 and up. He described the studio as an "unpaid co-founder" that helps entrepreneurs prototype, test ideas, build initial products, find design partners and customers, and raise funding over a 24-month period. During the interview, Boduch offered several observations about the current startup landscape. He stated that "AI has thrown everything up" and that pattern matching, which was important in the "golden era of SaaS," can now be a "big negative." He also argued that "it's the golden age of product management," contrary to claims that AI signals the end of the role. Additionally, Boduch said that "design and product become more of a bottleneck than engineering," noting that tasks that once took six months can now be done in a day or two, shifting the bottleneck away from writing code.