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Taxation Of Carried Interest
Fred Wilson – Jun 6, 2018
The issue of how to tax carried interest, the profit sharing interests that VCs, Private Equity firms, and Hedge Funds receive as compensation for generating returns to their investors, is in the news again. This time it is not a [...] Read more
Deleting Your Voice Recordings
Fred Wilson – Jun 5, 2018
A few months ago, the Gotham Gal asked me to disconnect the Amazon Alexa and Google Home devices we have in our family room. I complied with that request. This is what the two devices look like now: At some [...] Read more
Dani @ USV
Dani Grant – Jun 4, 2018
Hi everyone. I just joined USV as an analyst. I’m coming from Cloudflare, a USV portfolio company, where I worked for Dane on the Product Strategy team. If you’re working on anything interesting related to our new thesis, reach out. I’m dani@usv.com. Excited to start the Union Square adVentures. Read more
Why Decentralization Matters
Fred Wilson – Jun 4, 2018
So the news over the weekend is that Microsoft is buying GitHub. Many companies and developers are thinking “do I want my source code hosted on a service owned by Microsoft?” Fortunately, the protocol that GitHub is built on, Git [...] Read more
Valuation Inflation
Fred Wilson – Jun 3, 2018
In the blog post announcing changes at SV Angel last week, the SV Angel partners wrote: The amount of money raised in seed rounds has doubled and valuations have increased significantly. I thought I'd go back over the last three [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Paradex
Fred Wilson – Jun 2, 2018
A few weeks ago, our portfolio company Coinbase announced that they had acquired a company called Paradex, which operates a 0x relay (in other words a decentralized exchange). If you want to know more about what all of that means, [...] Read more
Some Things I Read This Morning
Fred Wilson – May 31, 2018
I don’t have much to say today that I can say. So I thought I’d do a little link blogging instead. Here are some interesting things I read online today: 1/ Tim Wu on a legal framework called “fiduciary duty” [...] Read more
Our Investment in Modern Fertility
Rebecca Kaden – May 30, 2018
Modern Fertility is building a trusted consumer brand in fertility, starting with their launch today of at-home testing for women. In the comfort of their own homes, and for a fraction of what it would cost at a clinic, women can have their key fertility hormones tested through a few drops of blood. Read more
Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fred Wilson – May 30, 2018
I realize that immigration is the third rail of our political discourse right now. But one thing should not be controversial. Entrepreneurs exist all over the world and if they want to come to the US, hire our citizens, and [...] Read more