A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonA friend shared this book and blog with me called Vanishing New York. Both chronicle the loss of the culture and institutions that made NYC a magical place to live in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Certainly rising rents, rising wealth, a rising proportion of apartments owned by people who don’t live here, […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonAt the Code Media conference a few months, Peter Kafka interviewed Kerry Trainor, CEO of our portfolio company SoundCloud . It’s a great conversation about the past and future of SoundCloud and also the past and future of the music business. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — August 3, 2018 Browser, […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIn late 2016/early 2017, Apple introduced a new app to the AppleTV called TV. We’ve had it on our various AppleTV devices but have not been big users of it until this summer. With our recent move to ditch traditional cable/satellite and go “over the top”, we have started using the AppleTV a lot more […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonSonos priced it’s initial public offering last night at $15/share and will start trading today under the ticker SONO. I am very fond of this company and the products it makes. The Gotham Gal and I are surely one of the company’s best customers. I am not an investor in Sonos, nor is USV, and […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonFor the past six months, Jed has been helping USV build some much-needed tools to connect people at our 60+ portfolio companies to each other. It has worked out well, so well that we decided to ask Jed to join us full time in a new role that we call Developer In Residence. Why would […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI read this post yesterday that says that 40% of VC investors went to either Stanford or Harvard . Frankly, I am not surprised. I’ve worked in this industry for over thirty years. It is full of Stanford and Harvard grads. I’ve got nothing against either school. They are wonderful education […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
