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Disappointment
Fred Wilson – Jul 1, 2019
Being a Knicks fan teaches you a lot about disappointment. At one point this spring, we thought we were going to get a couple top free agents and the first pick in the draft. We ended up with a lot [...] Read more
Universal Basic Income: An Introduction
Albert Wenger – Jul 1, 2019
Here is the text of a speech I gave at the 72nd Annual NYU Labor Conference, which this year was on AI and Automation. Unfortunately there is no recording - I stuck relatively closely to this, but didn’t read it. [...] Read more
The 5G Conundrum
Fred Wilson – Jun 30, 2019
Christopher Mims has a good post on the 5G headaches that are in store for those of us in the US as we roll out 5G: The Downside of 5G: Overwhelmed Cities, Torn-Up Streets, a Decade Until Completion As carriers [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: What Is Web3?
Fred Wilson – Jun 29, 2019
Juan Benet , founder and CEO of our portfolio company Protocol Labs , developer of the IPFS and Filecoin protocols, gave this talk last fall. I like Juan’s statement, about 10mins into this talk, that “what Bitcoin did to money, [...] Read more
AI and Health Care
Fred Wilson – Jun 27, 2019
David Kelnar sent me this deck that he did on the state of AI . It is very good. This slide got my attention: It is interesting, and not totally surprising, that the sector that AI-focused entrepreneurs are targeting more [...] Read more
Graduation Season
Fred Wilson – Jun 26, 2019
If you are feeling a little low on energy and want a pick me up, go to a high school graduation. You could simply crash any graduation, you don’t need to know anyone graduating. They are such feel good events. [...] Read more
Babylon Berlin
Albert Wenger – Jun 26, 2019
One of the reasons I get a fair bit of reading done is that I avoid watching lots of television. On a flight to Germany last week though, I got sucked into watching Babylon Berlin. The series is set in [...] Read more
New York’s Climate and Community Protection Act
Fred Wilson – Jun 25, 2019
The lawmakers in Albany have passed legislation known as the Climate and Community Protection Act (CCPA) and it is sitting on the Governor’s desk awaiting signature. There is plenty of debate on whether CCPA is good policy or bad policy. [...] Read more
Understanding Gender Bias In Venture Funding
Fred Wilson – Jun 24, 2019
USV portfolio company goTenna ‘s founder and CEO Daniela Perdomo and USV analyst Dani Grant did some number crunching on VC funding and published the info last week. After 4 rounds of VC, I ran my own data analysis to [...] Read more