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Farsighted
Fred Wilson – Sep 10, 2018
My friend Steven Johnson has a new book out called Farsighted . After attending a book talk he did on Thursday night, I put it on my Kindle and started reading it last night. The book is about decision making, [...] Read more
World After Capital: The Promise and Peril of the Digital Knowledge Loop
Albert Wenger – Sep 10, 2018
NOTE: I am resuming posting excerpts from my draft book World After Capital. The previous post introduced the Knowledge Loop. Today’s post covers the promise and peril of a Digital Knowledge Loop and also wraps up Part Two of the [...] Read more
Reinventing Education
Fred Wilson – Sep 9, 2018
Alibaba founder Jack Ma has announced that he plans to retire at age 54 and turn his attention back to education . He started his career as an English teacher. It seems, from reading the piece I linked to and [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Elon Musk on Joe Rogan Experience
Fred Wilson – Sep 8, 2018
I have never been as obsessed with Elon Musk as many are in the tech sector. We own two Tesla cars. We pre-ordered Tesla’s solar roof tiles several years ago but have not yet received delivery of them. I appreciate [...] Read more
Feature Friday: Android Smart Notifications
Fred Wilson – Sep 7, 2018
With the new version of Android comes intelligence around mobile notifications. If you tend to swipe away notifications from a particular app, Android eventually asks you this: I told Android to keep showing these project updates to me even though [...] Read more
Investment Risk Tolerance By Gender
Fred Wilson – Sep 6, 2018
Our portfolio company Stash , which offers a super simple mobile investing app and has roughly 2.5mm users, did some analysis on male and female users to see if there was a material difference in risk tolerance between men and [...] Read more
Retaining vs Deleting Emails
Fred Wilson – Sep 5, 2018
Conventional wisdom is that deleting old emails regularly is the best way to avoid issues down the road. My experience has been different. I’ve been involved in a few legal matters over the years where email discovery has been done. [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: A New Tack
Albert Wenger – Sep 5, 2018
After a six week hiatus I am resuming Uncertainty Wednesday. Much as I have done at varying points with my prior Tech Tuesday series, I have decided to head off in a different direction, at least for some time. Instead [...] Read more
Form factor
Nick Grossman – Sep 4, 2018
Over the past few weeks, I have varied up my computing habits a bit. For a laptop, I have been using a Pixelbook , and I have also been spending more timing using an iPad Pro for work. What I [...] Read more