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The Post-Sale Stay-Period
Fred Wilson – Sep 25, 2018
There is a lot of chatter on Tech Twitter and elsewhere about the Instagram founders leaving Facebook six years after selling their company to Facebook. All I can say about that situation is they gave Facebook way more of their [...] Read more
Getting the Chills
Nick Grossman – Sep 24, 2018
One of the greatest things Frannie and I have in common is that we get the chills from music — typically at the exact same time, triggered by the same musical… something. For me it starts at the back of [...] Read more
Conversations Versus Interviews
Fred Wilson – Sep 24, 2018
I’ve been interviewed many times and while interviews are OK, what I enjoy a lot more are public conversations between two people. Listening to two people talking as friends and peers is more enlightening to me. My friend Chris Dixon [...] Read more
Fifteen Years
Fred Wilson – Sep 23, 2018
Fifteen years ago, I sat down in front of a website called Typepad and wrote this post. I ended that short post (six brief paragraphs) with this: I read blogs a lot. And i think they are great. So i [...] Read more
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