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Happy 4th of July: Climate Edition
Albert Wenger – Jul 4, 2018
Independence Day is a cheesy summer action blockbuster. And yet, after watching it one can’t help but feel good about humanity defeating an existential threat using courage, technology and science (and doing so under American leadership). The irony today is [...] Read more
Keeping Your Blinders On
Fred Wilson – Jul 3, 2018
Last night I picked up my phone after a long and fun dinner party and saw that the Golden State Warriors had signed Boogie Cousins (one of the most talented big men in the NBA) to a one year mid [...] Read more
The path to decentralization: self-destructing companies
Nick Grossman – Jul 2, 2018
In June, the SEC gave some of its most concrete guidance to date that cryptoassets can start out as centralized projects, possibly initially sold under securities laws, and eventually become “decentralized” and thus no longer sponsor-controlled, and no longer sold [...] Read more
Hyper Social Not Anti Social
Fred Wilson – Jul 2, 2018
This seems right to me: “In post-industrial environments where foods are abundant and readily available, our cravings for fat and sugar sculpted by distant evolutionary pressures can easily go into insatiable overdrive and lead to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease [...] Read more
World After Capital: Limits of Capitalism (Intro & Missing Prices)
Albert Wenger – Jul 2, 2018
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from World After Capital starts to explain why capitalism cannot solve the problem of allocating attention which is scarce at the individual and collective levels. Capitalism has been extraordinarily successful. So much so that even communist countries [...] Read more
The Final Push
Fred Wilson – Jul 1, 2018
We spent the last week getting a project we’ve been working on for two years over the finish line. I find that the last 10% is so much harder than the first 90% of any project. That is true whether [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Patty McCord on Rethinking How We Manage People
Fred Wilson – Jun 30, 2018
The Gotham Gal and I got to see Patty McCord give a talk a few months ago and I was blown away by her pragmatic, no-nonsense, calling out bullshit approach to managing people. Patty helped Netflix build their culture and [...] Read more
ERC-948
Dani Grant – Jun 29, 2018
Most of the apps we interact with in web2 are subscription based (Gartner thinks 80% of apps will be subscription services by 2020), but subscriptions still aren’t possible in web3. Read more
GiveCrypto.Org
Fred Wilson – Jun 28, 2018
Yesterday, Brian Armstrong , the founder and CEO of our portfolio company Coinbase , announced the formation of a new non-profit called GiveCrypto.org . Joanne and I are donating some of our Bitcoin to this charitable effort. Here is a [...] Read more