Writing

An interesting project came out of USV this year. My partner Andy had a hunch about short form content, audio entertainment, and romantic comedy and he launched a company to explore these ideas called Meet Cute . Meet Cute produces [...]  Read more

Today is the impeachment vote in the House of Representatives. It will be fascinating to see if any Republicans at all will support impeachment in the House. In an extraordinary display of abdication of any allegiance to the United States [...]  Read more

Twitter announced their Bluesky project last week. This is what I had to say about it, on Twitter naturally. I wrote about these feelings 3 1/2 years ago in this post https://t.co/yC2JOmOFqu — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) December 11, 2019 /fin [...]  Read more

Most big technology changes don’t come out of nowhere. There are predecessor technologies that predate and portend what is to come. I like to call these predecessor technologies “gateways.” In the case of the web, there were two important gateways. [...]  Read more

Last week I started digging into electricity as part of my posts the climate crisis . Today’s post continues that by looking at the potential increases in the demand for electricity from moving transportation to electric vehicles (EVs). To start [...]  Read more

Paul Graham wrote a blog post this week about having kids . I read it with interest because I have long noticed that having kids has had a profound and positive effect on Paul. So I was interested in what [...]  Read more

I backed this one for the Gotham Gal because she is a crossword fiend. Read more

Our portfolio company Protocol Labs is the creator of the IPFS protocol and the Filecoin protocol . The idea behind both of these open source projects is to decentralize the storage of information on the web. The Filecoin project is [...]  Read more

In order to understand solutions to the climate crisis , including the potential role of nuclear energy , it is essential to understand our current and future demand and supply of electricity. There are of course entire books that have [...]  Read more