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World After Capital: Getting Past Capital (Labor)
Albert Wenger – May 14, 2018
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from World After Capital is about labor. In it I describe what I call the “job loop” and how it has become central to both the economy and sadly also our view of human dignity. Before we [...] Read more
Happy Mothers Day
Fred Wilson – May 13, 2018
It is a bit strange that we set aside one day a year to honor Mom and motherhood because where I sit it is something we need to honor every hour of every day. Motherhood is one of the most [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Vitalik’s Talk At Edcon
Fred Wilson – May 12, 2018
One of the most important questions in crypto land right now is “whither Ethereum?” To get a sense of the answer to that question, it helps to listen to the important speeches Vitalik gives. This one, at Edcon in Toronto [...] Read more
And Now A Word From Our Sponsor
Fred Wilson – May 10, 2018
I’m running an advertisement here today. I’ve been Chairman of two public companies in my career and the leaders of those two companies sat down and talked yesterday. I enjoyed watching that very much and hope you do too. In [...] Read more
The Jetsons
Fred Wilson – May 9, 2018
When I was a kid, two of my favorite cartoons were from Hanna-Barbera ; The Flintsones and The Jetsons. I particularly loved The Jetsons. From Wikipedia : the Jetsons live in a comical version of the future, with elaborate robotic contraptions, [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Beliefs (Part 3)
Albert Wenger – May 9, 2018
Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday is a quick wrap up to the formalization of beliefs as probability distributions. Let’s first start with a simple question. What probability distribution reflects the least knowledge about a coin? How do you express “I don’t know, [...] Read more
Subscribing To AVC Via Email
Fred Wilson – May 8, 2018
About a month ago I put all of AVC traffic behind “https.” This is something you can do with one click of a button if you are behind Cloudflare , as AVC is. I should have done this a long [...] Read more
Giving Publicly Traded Stock To Charity
Fred Wilson – May 7, 2018
One of the best things about having highly appreciated publicly traded stock is that it is the most attractive way to make charitable gifts. The Gotham Gal and I do this all of the time and I encourage others (founders, [...] Read more
World After Capital: Getting Past Capital
Albert Wenger – May 7, 2018
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from my book World After Capital deals with how we have achieved the sufficiency of physical capital. This is capitalisms greatest accomplishment, but also means that we are now facing a new scarcity: attention. The title of [...] Read more