Eric Boduch on venture studio strategy
From The Side Quest with Eric Boduch · · GrepBeat
“We're willing to work in both environments. I mean, really the important thing. Yeah. I mean, it's an it has to be an idea we can add value to, right? I mean, we're not going to do something in health tech or we're not going to do something that sells to the government in large part just because well, the bar would be really high there. And I if I'm the entrepreneur, I'm like, well, how can how much can you help me there? And we can help them build, but we don't have connections. We've never run a company that's sold to the federal government, you know, so we tend not to do those um because we don't think our value exchange is as high as and then others.”
On , Eric Boduch, Cofounder at Pendo, spoke about venture studio strategy 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.