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Scaling A Company While Controlling Costs
Fred Wilson – Apr 8, 2019
Over the last decade, the costs of scaling a company in the bay area, NYC, and many other startup regions in the US has escalated sharply. We have encouraged our portfolio companies that are located in these high cost regions [...] Read more
World After Capital: Psychological Freedom (Fin)
Albert Wenger – Apr 8, 2019
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from my book World After Capital ends the chapter on psychological freedom. The prior excerpts covered the freedom to learn, to create, and to share. The following ties this back to one of the central chapters on [...] Read more
Hiring Shouldn’t be a Pop Quiz: Let’s Make it Open Book
Bethany Crystal – Apr 8, 2019
Last week, I read this article about how an executive managing editor at Business Insider will only hire people who send her a thank-you note. Then Twitter blew up a little: Read more
The Heartbeat (Continued)
Fred Wilson – Apr 7, 2019
I wrote a post last year called The Heartbeat in which I advocated for a cadence and a rhythm in an organization. I was reminded of that in this exchange on Twitter over the last 24 hours: I am a [...] Read more
Women in Leadership Across the Bay Area and Beyond
Bethany Crystal – Apr 7, 2019
There may be no better use case for Twitter than the crowd-sourced list. Yesterday morning, a speaker for an upcoming USV Women’s Leadership breakfast event had to cancel at the last minute. With less than 3 days’ notice, I took [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: AI and Society
Fred Wilson – Apr 6, 2019
Earlier this week, Kara Swisher interviewed Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker , who run NYU’s AI Now Institute . It is an interesting and thought provoking discussion. I don’t personally love Kate and Meredith’s answers on how society should be [...] Read more
Eight Years in New York
Bethany Crystal – Apr 5, 2019
Yesterday I walked past the Strand Bookstore near Union Square and couldn’t help but smile. Seeing all of the books outside on racks always reminds me of my very first year in New York City. Since I just passed my [...] Read more
AI Ethics Are Hard
Albert Wenger – Apr 5, 2019
Google formed and then within a week dissolved an AI Ethics board, in the corporate equivalent of many celebrity weddings: ill conceived, but quickly ended. The calls for ethics in AI have been strong and understandable. AI is powerful technology [...] Read more
Orthodoxy
Fred Wilson – Apr 4, 2019
I am not a fan of Orthodoxy. I appreciate the power of religion although I am not religious personally. I respect the followers of Allah, Jesus, Moses, Buddha, and other religious figures. I know that the beliefs of religious people [...] Read more