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Video Of The Week: Ben Horowitz on Crypto
Fred Wilson – Sep 22, 2018
This is a short clip from a longer conversation that Ben Horowitz did at Disrupt a few weeks ago . In this clip, Ben describes crypto as a new kind of computing platform that is worse in every way (right [...] Read more
Pixelbook Reactions
Fred Wilson – Sep 20, 2018
A few weeks ago, I wrote that I was getting more interested in a Chromebook . And I got a ton of great feedback from all of you. Thank you for that. I purchased a Pixelbook and have been using [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Fear and Acceptance
Albert Wenger – Sep 20, 2018
Ok, so technically it is Thursday, but here is the latest Uncertainty Wednesday post. Today I want to draw a second important conclusion that follows from the post about the pervasiveness of uncertainty and last week’s post about the fundamental [...] Read more
How Diversity Happens
Fred Wilson – Sep 19, 2018
Henry Ward , founder and CEO of our portfolio company Carta , wrote a post yesterday outlining the gender inequity on cap tables throughout the startup landscape . It is a good post and I would recommend you click through [...] Read more
Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway
Fred Wilson – Sep 18, 2018
This post is jam-packed with conflicts. It is about not one, but two, of USV’s portfolio companies. The more the better in my view. Our portfolio company Cloudflare announced yesterday that they have launched an IPFS Gateway . IPFS is [...] Read more
Creative Prompts
Fred Wilson – Sep 17, 2018
The Gotham Gal and I listened to the recent Howard Stern interview of Paul McCartney yesterday on a drive from long island to NYC. It’s a great interview, about 1 1/2 hours long, with incredible stories and lots of music. [...] Read more
World After Capital: Enhancing Freedom
Albert Wenger – Sep 17, 2018
NOTE: The following excerpt is the introduction to the third part of my book World After Capital. The second major goal of World After Capital is to propose an approach for a transition to the Knowledge Age. The challenge is [...] Read more
Marathon Man
Fred Wilson – Sep 16, 2018
The New York Times has a piece up on Eliud Kipchoge , the world’s best marathon runner. I read it with interest yesterday as I like to think of startups as marathons and I am always on the lookout for [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Brian Armstrong at Disrupt
Fred Wilson – Sep 15, 2018
There is a narrative in crypto land that you are either in the “crypto is money” camp or the “crypto is tech” camp. This blog post from Erik Torenberg sums that up pretty nicely. The interview below is from TechCrunch [...] Read more