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Women in Leadership Across the Bay Area and Beyond
Bethany Crystal – Apr 7, 2019
There may be no better use case for Twitter than the crowd-sourced list. Yesterday morning, a speaker for an upcoming USV Women’s Leadership breakfast event had to cancel at the last minute. With less than 3 days’ notice, I took [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: AI and Society
Fred Wilson – Apr 6, 2019
Earlier this week, Kara Swisher interviewed Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker , who run NYU’s AI Now Institute . It is an interesting and thought provoking discussion. I don’t personally love Kate and Meredith’s answers on how society should be [...] Read more
Eight Years in New York
Bethany Crystal – Apr 5, 2019
Yesterday I walked past the Strand Bookstore near Union Square and couldn’t help but smile. Seeing all of the books outside on racks always reminds me of my very first year in New York City. Since I just passed my [...] Read more
AI Ethics Are Hard
Albert Wenger – Apr 5, 2019
Google formed and then within a week dissolved an AI Ethics board, in the corporate equivalent of many celebrity weddings: ill conceived, but quickly ended. The calls for ethics in AI have been strong and understandable. AI is powerful technology [...] Read more
Orthodoxy
Fred Wilson – Apr 4, 2019
I am not a fan of Orthodoxy. I appreciate the power of religion although I am not religious personally. I respect the followers of Allah, Jesus, Moses, Buddha, and other religious figures. I know that the beliefs of religious people [...] Read more
The Annual Computer Science Fair
Fred Wilson – Apr 3, 2019
Here in NYC, we are about halfway into a 10-year effort to get computer science classes into every public school building in NYC . We are already seeing significant impact and outcomes . Most of the students taking CS classes [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Working for a Startup
Albert Wenger – Apr 3, 2019
I got the idea for today’s Uncertainty Wednesday from seeing quite a few tweets in my timeline to the effect that startups don’t really have meaningful upside for employees. Tracing these tweets back, led me to this post titled “working [...] Read more
The Shed
Fred Wilson – Apr 2, 2019
Yesterday morning, in raw, windy, 30 degree weather in NYC, I took a walk up the Highline to Hudson Yards. As I made the turn west at 29th street, I saw The Shed emerge through the tall buildings. The Shed [...] Read more
The IPO Bonanza
Fred Wilson – Apr 1, 2019
After predicting an IPO bonanza in my new year's day post in 2015, and being largely wrong about it for four years, we are finally seeing it happen. I am not exactly sure what it is about this year, as [...] Read more