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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
Voting
Fred Wilson – Sep 13, 2018
Today is primary day in New York State. The polls open at 6am and stay open until 9pm. There are primary races for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General as well as a bunch of statewide races for State Senate and [...] Read more
The Unbundling Of Health Care
Fred Wilson – Sep 12, 2018
Naomi Shah , one of our analysts at USV, has been doing a deep dive on health care since she joined us this past spring. She has started to publish a series of blog posts on what she has learned [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: The Unknowable Alternative Life
Albert Wenger – Sep 12, 2018
In the last Uncertainty Wednesday, I told three episodes from my life to illustrated just how pervasive uncertainty is in our lives. Today I want to tackle the first and maybe most fundamental implication of that: you cannot know what [...] Read more
Unbundling Healthcare
Naomi Shah – Sep 11, 2018
USV has been investing in health-related technologies for about five years. Read more
Remembering 9/11
Fred Wilson – Sep 11, 2018
On Sunday morning, I rode my bike by the memorial in lower Manhattan where the twin towers used to stand. They have done a wonderful job rebuilding that area and the memorial itself is inspiring in just the right way, somber and [...] Read more