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AI and the Allocation of Attention
Albert Wenger – Jul 26, 2019
Here is a talk which I gave at the Rise of AI conference in Berlin earlier this year on the topic of Artificial Intelligence and the allocation of attention. It explicitly links what is happening online to the climate crisis. Read more
Smart Thermostats
Fred Wilson – Jul 22, 2019
My colleague Dani sent me this chart last week: I believe this is more or less a proxy for smart wifi-enabled thermostats in the US. Those would be Nest, Honeywell Lyric, Hive thermostats and a lot of others too. Those [...] Read more
The Trouble with Emoji
Albert Wenger – Jul 22, 2019
I know several wonderful people involved with the process of creating new emoji and occasionally see them celebrating an addition. I understand the motivation for representing more people, such as the recent addition of interskintone couples. And yet, each time [...] Read more
Parenting
Fred Wilson – Jul 21, 2019
Parenting is the hardest and greatest job that I have had. It presents the thorniest problems and generates the greatest rewards. We had the pleasure of spending most of yesterday with our three kids and their significant others. The occasion [...] Read more
10x Engineers
Albert Wenger – Jul 18, 2019
A recent series of tweets about identifying 10x software engineers set off a lot of making fun of the author for perpetuating a myth. Given the wording of the tweets too they made a particularly easy target (I can’t actually [...] Read more
Abridge
Fred Wilson – Jul 17, 2019
We seed funded a company late last year called Abridge and the company went public yesterday with their iOS and Android apps. Naomi wrote about the investment on the USV blog. I want to focus on the product because I [...] Read more
Dronebase Insights
Fred Wilson – Jul 16, 2019
I was sitting in my backyard this weekend looking up at the roof on my house, which I can’t see because of a parapet, and wondering how all of the solar panels we put up there a few years ago [...] Read more
Immigration Makes Us Stronger
Fred Wilson – Jul 15, 2019
It is ironic and upsetting that a nation built on immigration is increasingly unwelcoming to immigrants and that the words ” go back” are becoming a political rallying cry. I am for immigration full stop. I think opening our arms [...] Read more
Whales Not Unicorns
Fred Wilson – Jul 14, 2019
I have been vocal here that I do not like the term Unicorn to describe highly valued venture-backed startups. Unicorns are mythical creatures that don't really exist and highly valued venture-backed startups do exist. They might be rare, but they [...] Read more