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Ladies: Let’s aim to be a little mediocre
Bethany Crystal – May 27, 2019
This year, on International Women’s Day, Reshma Saujani, CEO and founder of Girls Who Code, shared an interesting charge for women around the world: “Be a little mediocre.” At a book release event in NYC last night for her new [...] Read more
How to Answer the Question, “How Are You?”
Bethany Crystal – May 27, 2019
I’ve never liked the question, “How are you?” For one, it’s an empty greeting. Most people who ask don’t care about the response. Second, it’s the most open-ended question in the world. There’s no right way to answer it. In [...] Read more
Geofencing Crypto Assets Out Of The US Is Bad Policy
Fred Wilson – May 26, 2019
I wrote this tweetstorm on Friday when I read the blog post about Poloniex’s decision to geofence certain assets away from US customers , driven by the SEC’s recently published framework for digital assets . Geofencing Crypto Assets Out Of [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Olaf Carlson-Wee At Token Summit
Fred Wilson – May 25, 2019
In my new gig as interviewer, I sat down with Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder of Polychain Capital and one of the top token fund managers, at Token Summit. Read more
Sick Day
Fred Wilson – May 23, 2019
I woke up sick this morning and could not fly to Toronto where I was planning to do a session at Collision with Matt Glotzbach , CEO of our portfolio company Quizlet . I sent some emails to let people [...] Read more
Sofar
Fred Wilson – May 22, 2019
Andy wrote about our investment in Sofar yesterday on the USV blog . That is our practice. We publish our investment rationale on our blog every time we make an investment. It creates a permanent record of why we made [...] Read more
The Role of the Peanut Gallery in a Boardroom
Bethany Crystal – May 22, 2019
Stop me if this sounds familiar: You’re in a meeting at work listening to a colleague present an idea. In the middle of their pitch, they mention something — a person, another company, an example of a problem — that [...] Read more
Citibike
Fred Wilson – May 21, 2019
In a time when there are so many options for getting around the urban landscape (walking, subway, e-bikes, e-scooters, Yellow Cabs, Uber, Lyft, Juno etc), you would think that the six year old Citibike service in NYC would be “old [...] Read more
Custody, Trading, Staking
Fred Wilson – May 20, 2019
In our talk at Consensus last week , we talked about security in crypto land. There are a few highly trusted custody services in crypto, including the popular consumer and institutional custody services offered by our portfolio company Coinbase . [...] Read more