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Criticism Should be Welcome: Roubini Crypto Edition
Albert Wenger – Oct 12, 2018
Nouriel Roubini has done the crypto ecosystem a great service by pulling together pretty much all issues and criticisms in a single document. While he is prone to hyperbole (not unlike some people in crypto) and plays fast and loose [...] Read more
TxTenna Is Live
Fred Wilson – Oct 11, 2018
I wrote about something called TxTenna back in May. It is a way to move Bitcoin from one wallet to another without needing to be connected to the Internet. Well TxTenna is now live and if you want to see [...] Read more
Pixelated
Fred Wilson – Oct 10, 2018
Google had its big event yesterday and announced two new Pixel phones, the Pixel 3 and the Pixel 3XL. I’ve been using Google phones for quite a while now, first the Nexus phones and now the Pixel phones. I love [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: The Trouble with Slow Risk (Climate Change)
Albert Wenger – Oct 10, 2018
People worry about many risks, but generally about the wrong ones. We tend to be obsessed with personal and societal risk that is “fast.” What will the Fed Reserve announce next? Should I trust Tesla’s auto steering? These are risks [...] Read more
Plans vs. Routines
Nick Grossman – Oct 9, 2018
Sunday night over dinner, my son, parents and I were discussing the saving / investing system we set up for our kids in the spring. The idea was/is: set a monthly budget for purchases (in their case, mostly online movies, [...] Read more
CSforAll Summit
Fred Wilson – Oct 9, 2018
There has been a movement growing in K12 public education around the US over the last decade to get computer science into the K12 curriculum and into all schools and in front of all students. The name this movement has [...] Read more
Retail Space Available
Fred Wilson – Oct 8, 2018
A friend of mine told me last weekend that he thinks the two biggest issues in NYC right now are the rise of homelessness and the proliferation of vacant retail spaces. One is about not having a space to live [...] Read more
World After Capital: Economic Freedom (Intro, Universal Basic Income)
Albert Wenger – Oct 8, 2018
NOTE: I am resuming posting excerpts from my book World After Capital. The last post was the beginning of Part Three of the book. Today’s post is the the introduction to the concept of economic freedom and how universal basic [...] Read more
Fully Diluted Market Value
Fred Wilson – Oct 7, 2018
When someone asks you how much of a company you own, the answer could be two very different numbers. You might own 10,000 shares and there might be 1mm shares issued and outstanding. That would suggest you own 1% of [...] Read more