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Uncertainty Wednesday: Pascal’s Wager and Impeachment
Albert Wenger – Apr 24, 2019
I have been enjoying writing about current events as part of Uncertainty Wednesdays, such as the Notre Dame fire and the Boeing crashes. Today’s edition is about impeachment following the Mueller report. One of the great early thinkers about uncertainty [...] Read more
Opting Out Of The Legacy Model
Fred Wilson – Apr 23, 2019
When you look at industries that continue to operate on old, outdated, and highly regulated models (education, health care, banking, brokerage, etc, etc), it is interesting to look at the numbers of consumers who are opting out of the legacy [...] Read more
The Upside And The Downside
Fred Wilson – Apr 22, 2019
As I wrote in yesterday’s post , there are good and bad things that come from new technology and new innovations. The challenge for many of us is that the promoters of the technology only want to talk about the [...] Read more
The Difference Between “Can” and “Should”
Bethany Crystal – Apr 22, 2019
I’ve always had a pretty big problem with this one. As soon as somebody says, “You can’t do that,” my immediate instinctual reaction is as follows: “Oh yeah? Just you wait.” Every. Single. Time. This has served me well countless [...] Read more
World After Capital: Taking Responsibility (Intro)
Albert Wenger – Apr 22, 2019
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from my book World After Capital starts the fourth and final section. I am embarking on a significant rewrite of that section to make it more action oriented, so expect some rough reading ahead. Suppose that I [...] Read more
Facial Recognition
Fred Wilson – Apr 21, 2019
I would like to start this post with a disclosure. USV portfolio company Clarifai has one of the best facial recognition models on the market and is very active in the facial recognition market. Now that I have disclosed that, [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: John von Neumann on K12 CS Education
Fred Wilson – Apr 20, 2019
As many of you know, I have spent a fair bit of my time over the last ten years on increasing the amount of CS Education in our K12 system in NYC and around the US. My friend Rob sent [...] Read more
Learning about Leaders … from the Organizations they Build
Albert Wenger – Apr 19, 2019
One thing I have learned in over 2 decades of working with startups is that you can learn the most about a leader from the organization that they build. Over time, especially if not checked by a capable board, the [...] Read more
A Hackathon At NYC’s City Hall
Fred Wilson – Apr 18, 2019
I like going to hackathons. A number of USV portfolio companies have emerged out of hackathons, like our portfolio company Dapper which created its hit crypto-collectible game CryptoKitties at a Hackathon in late 2017. So yesterday I headed down to [...] Read more