A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonI have written about stablecoins a bunch here at AVC. I believe cryptocurrencies that are not highly volatile are important for use cases like e-commerce. I explained why here . So we need crypto assets that are price stabilized and one of the best ways to do that is to peg a crypto asset to […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIt is very typical that options and RSUs that are issued to new employees upon joining a company will have “one year cliff vesting.” This means that the first year of vesting into your options or RSUs will not happen until you have completed one entire year. After that vesting usually happens […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI’m not much for the shopping mania that happens on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but I do like the idea of taking a day at this time of year to give back. Today is that day. This year is a particularly hard year for so many and so giving back, if you can, is […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWe learned last week that the US Treasury wants to regulate crypto wallets like bank accounts. On the surface, one can understand that temptation. If people store, send, receive, and sell crypto assets in crypto wallets, then surely they should be regulated like bank accounts. Except that is only […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI learned yesterday of the passing of Arnold Waldstein. Arnold was as regular a reader of this blog as there ever was or ever will be. His warmth is what I will remember most. He cared about people. Arnold was a born and bred NYer who went to Silicon Valley and built a career in […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI’ve been biking several times a week in NYC this fall and every mask I’ve worn has caused me problems with fogging my glasses and making it harder to breath. I’ve tried a bunch of different masks and nothing works great. So when I saw this project to make something better for working out on […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
