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The Hidden Cost Of Extending Option Exercise Periods
Fred Wilson – Mar 11, 2019
Many people in startup land believe that the answer to the challenges around forcing departing employees to exercise vested options is to simply extend the option exercise period to the maximum (ten years) allowed by the IRS. It certainly is [...] Read more
Take back the night: Are we retreating away from tech to smaller social circles?
Bethany Crystal – Mar 11, 2019
There seems to be a push back toward “living room” culture and salon environments, rather than a continuation of the “all-tech, all the time” movement If 2019 is shaping up to be anything so far, it’s the year in which [...] Read more
The Warren Breakup Plan
Fred Wilson – Mar 10, 2019
Elizabeth Warren made news this weekend with her plan to breakup Google, Amazon, and Facebook (and also Apple ). Let me first say that I am sympathetic to Warren’s position. I particularly don’t like the way that Google, Apple, and [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Ayah Bdeir
Fred Wilson – Mar 9, 2019
I wrote a bit last Monday about the 60 Minutes piece last Sunday night about getting to gender equity in STEM education. My message in that blog post was that there are many innovators in this sector and not everyone [...] Read more
The power of community
Nick Grossman – Mar 8, 2019
Community is a funny thing. It can sound like a fluffy word or concept, but it’s actually really powerful. Maybe more powerful than many things. Community is about helping people feel connected and aligned. When people are connected , they [...] Read more
Free Solo (Movie Review)
Albert Wenger – Mar 8, 2019
Earlier this week I went to see Free Solo, which documents Alex Honnold’s ascent of El Capitan, with our son Michael. After being on the edge of our seats for most of the movie, we came away with sweaty hands [...] Read more
The Business Model Pivot
Fred Wilson – Mar 7, 2019
I saw Zuck’s post on pivoting to private interactions from public posts yesterday and I had a flashback to Bill Gates’s Internet Tidal Wave memo to his company almost twenty-five years ago. I have always seen a lot of Gates [...] Read more
The value of looking up
Bethany Crystal – Mar 7, 2019
Photographer Eric Pickersgill photoshopped phones out of people’s hands in photos to show how addicted we have become (via https://www.boredpanda.com/portraits-holding-devices-removed-eric-pickersgill/) On mornings when I feel like I’m slipping too much into “the big-city grind,” I like to take a completely [...] Read more
What decentralization is good for (part 3): growth
Nick Grossman – Mar 6, 2019
Picking back up the series on what decentralization is good for (part 1 , part 2 ), today I want to focus on one of the most exciting aspects of decentralization: growth. In this case, when I say “decentralized”, what [...] Read more