A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonThe number one thing I hear from people who want to write online more is that they struggle to publish incomplete ideas and unpolished compositions. What I have learned from writing online regularly for over twenty years is that writing online is a conversation. What I mean by that is that you are […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
The LibrarianA (tiny) monthly newsletter inspired by our Monday Meeting […] Read more
Fred WilsonUSV is and has always been a small venture capital firm. We have twenty employees and we like the casual comfortable vibe that creates for us and the founders and management teams we work with. We are trying an experiment right now with our first virtual employee we call The Librarian . This is The […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Grace CarneyPlacing financial value on an individual’s personal data, let alone selling it, has always felt like a futile exercise. While ‘big data’ is a hot commodity, my own personal dataset has seemed pretty worthless commercially. But as more LLMs announce partnerships with media companies in exchange for […] Read more (opens In Transit in a new tab)
Jared HechtI believe that creating a successful consumer product can be attributed to somewhere between 70-90% luck and 10-30% executing against that luck. A lot of things have to go right: timing, product, distribution, zeitgeist, etc. So much of it is stumbling your way into capturing lightning in a bottle […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)
