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Tech Jobs For All Who Want Them
Fred Wilson – Feb 13, 2020
The tech sector is the fastest growing sector of the economy in NYC and around the US and around the world. The tech sector offers high paying jobs and a growing number of them. But, as we all know, the [...] Read more
Andrew Yang
Fred Wilson – Feb 12, 2020
I am sorry to see Andrew Yang leave the race for the Democratic nomination last night. He brought a sense of humor, fun, and a ton of new ideas to the slog that is called the primaries. He will be [...] Read more
Birthday Wish: Contributions to Climate Crisis Collective
Albert Wenger – Feb 11, 2020
Today I am celebrating my 53rd birthday. I am fortunate to be doing so with friends and family and, knock on wood, in good health. This makes it all the more important to me to continue helping to fight the [...] Read more
USDC
Fred Wilson – Feb 11, 2020
I just bought some US Dollars today. I do that many days. But the dollars I bought today are crypto assets, like Bitcoin and Ethereum. These US Dollar assets are called USDC and they are issued by an industry consortium [...] Read more
Proof of Transfer (PoX)
Nick Grossman – Feb 10, 2020
Last week, the Blockstack team formally rolled out their proposal for a new mining mechanism for the Stacks blockchain called Proof of Transfer (PoX) . In addition to the blog post, you can read the full PoX white paper and [...] Read more
Crypto, Social?
Dani Grant – Feb 10, 2020
When you really think about it, isn’t crypto kind of an amazing platform to build social products on? Crypto is public, global and gamified by default, and commerce, identity and ownership are all built in from the get go. (How [...] Read more
Computer Science For All NYC
Fred Wilson – Feb 10, 2020
About ten years ago, I started asking why were weren’t teaching computer science to every student in the NYC public school system. That led to a journey that started with some computer science high schools and eventually got to a [...] Read more
A Social Resurgence
Rebecca Kaden – Feb 7, 2020
We have recently gotten excited about several new emerging social networks and platforms. While the competition for prolonged attention only gets fiercer and the network effects in the dominant players remain strong, there is also fresh consumer appetite for creative [...] Read more
Funding Friday: Squids In Disguise
Fred Wilson – Feb 7, 2020
Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan is running a Make 100 project called Squids In Disguise where he will make 100 surprise sticker packs. 80 packs will contain 5 limited edition art stickers at random from at least 10 packs will be [...] Read more