A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonSilvio Micali is the founder of USV portfolio company Algorand , which is building a foundational blockchain of the same name. In this video, Silvio explains what is different and important about Algorand. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonMy friend Ro Gupta co-founded and runs a company called Carmera which makes real-time HD maps for the autonomous driving market. They do this by operating “an owned and professionally crowdsourced vehicular sensor network” (ie Google StreetView) which captures real-time data about what is happening […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonApple and Google’s duopoly on mobile operating systems give those two companies incredible power in the market and one of the most obvious places to see that power is the 30% tax they take on transactions that happen in their app stores. For subscriptions the tax is 30% in year one and 15% on the […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI read the ESPN piece on Kevin Love and other NBA players’ mental health issues this morning. My son had sent it to me yesterday. The bit about his panic attack during an Atlantic Hawks game, initially disclosed in this piece Kevin wrote on The Players Tribune, was particularly hard to read. Kevin […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI am fifty-seven years old today. As I have done for the last twenty years, I plan to spend the day at the beach surrounded by family. Birthdays don’t bum me out. I look forward to them. They are a time to celebrate life. And that is what I plan to do. I will make […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonGetting to something first has tremendous advantages but also comes with a bunch of challenges. I was thinking about this yesterday as I was setting up a couple iPads to be used around our house as smart home controllers. The Apple identity management and app store systems feel like they were built […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
