A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonI saw this tweetstorm by Jack Dorsey on Saturday evening and thought “Good, Jack is taking care of himself.” For my birthday this year, I did a 10-day silent vipassana meditation, this time in Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar 🇲🇲. We went into silence on the night of my birthday, the 19th. Here’s what I know […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIn the last week, we have learned that Uber, Lyft, and Slack plan 2019 IPOs. I am sure that a few more highly valued private companies are also planning to go public in 2019. It is something that I have been expecting and predicting for a few years now. Eventually these companies that have raised […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOur friend and USV Limited Partner Beezer Clarkson hosted a panel at the recent Slush Conference in Helsinki talking about the shifting landscape for startup funding. My partner Rebecca participated on the panel along with several others. It’s a roughly 30min conversation and covers the big topics […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI think Google Photos is awesome. It is one of my favorite Google products. The photo search is amazing. And the sync from my Pixel phone to Photos works beautifully. But there is one thing that bugs me about Google Photos that I would love to see the Photos team address. When I post a […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company Quizlet is one of the top mobile apps out there with over 50 million people a month using it to learn something . Quizlet has existed for over a decade as a wikipedia style learning community with its users creating and sharing study sets on pretty much everything and […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIt is Computer Science Education Week . This is a worldwide movement to get schools everywhe re doing an hour of code . It started in 2009 and nine years later it is one of the largest learning events in the world. I celebrated CS Ed Week yesterday morning by visiting PS24 with NYC Schools […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
