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Honoring Labor

Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson – Sep 7, 2020

Something that bugs me about our tax code in the US is that we tax labor more than capital. If you make $100,000 of gains on your purchase of Tesla stock you pay 15% of those gains to the IRS. [...]  Read more

Funding Friday: Insider Art

Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson – Sep 4, 2020

The comic book community on Kickstarter is so great. This projec t that I backed today is a great example of the creativity that they express in every project they do. USV TEAM POSTS: Hanel Baveja — Sep 1, 2020 [...]  Read more

Some Thoughts On SPACs

Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson – Sep 3, 2020

As many of you know, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are all the rage on wall street right now. SPACs are publicly traded “shell companies” that raise capital in an IPO process and then use that capital to merge with [...]  Read more

Mental Healthcare 3.0

Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson – Sep 2, 2020

My colleague Hanel wrote an important post on USV.com yesterday. It looks at mental healthcare solutions and compares them to what has happened in online learning in the last decade. USV invests in both wellness and learning and we believe [...]  Read more

Mental Healthcare 3.0

Hanel Baveja

Hanel Baveja – Sep 1, 2020

Part 1: The 2.0-> 3.0 Transition If mental health technology was like language-learning solutions, we have been in the language CD and tapes phase for the last decade or so. The shift from language textbooks to CDs was a 1.0->2.0 [...]  Read more

Better Residential Internet In Manhattan

Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson – Sep 1, 2020

Our portfolio company Pilot Fiber , which provides the best fiber internet to businesses in NYC, has teamed up with a national telecom provider to offer residential fiber internet in Manhattan. Here’s the way they describe it on their landing [...]  Read more

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