Eric Boduch on venture studio geography
From The Side Quest with Eric Boduch · · GrepBeat
“I think you know I'm trying to think if there's more on the west co I mean there's more venture on the west coast and therefore I think there's probably more venture studio more startups and yeah proportionally though I I think we're about you know normal. I think there is another one here or maybe a small one or small venture studio like entities. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's there's one uh been an old FDA commissioner is doing in Chapel Hill. I forget the name of it. It's just studio like uh very similar, you know, doing biotech stuff. I mean, and I think they're done pretty well. Uh I think they're kind of under the radar um you know, for the area, but do do a lot of cool work in the biotech space. Um but yeah, I think there's, you know, venture studios probably evenly dispersed similar to venture capitalists. Uh and a lot of it just really depends on where the you know the the partners or the CEOs of the studio are that concentration.”
On , Eric Boduch, Cofounder at Pendo, spoke about venture studio geography 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.