A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonWe have a tradition at USV that one of our new analysts, Dani , coined Proof Of Blog. Excited to be a part of the @usv team (it’s official now – based on Proof of Blog). I’m two weeks in, here’s some of what I’ve learned so far. https://t.co/1bajnjongr — Dani Grant (@thedanigrant) June 4, […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe issue of how to tax carried interest, the profit sharing interests that VCs, Private Equity firms, and Hedge Funds receive as compensation for generating returns to their investors, is in the news again. This time it is not a debate at the Federal level, but at the state level. There are […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonA few months ago, the Gotham Gal asked me to disconnect the Amazon Alexa and Google Home devices we have in our family room. I complied with that request. This is what the two devices look like now: At some point, I will remove them and either do something else with them or dispose of […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonSo the news over the weekend is that Microsoft is buying GitHub. Many companies and developers are thinking “do I want my source code hosted on a service owned by Microsoft?” Fortunately, the protocol that GitHub is built on, Git , is open source and there are other Git hosts, like GitLab. There […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIn the blog post announcing changes at SV Angel last week, the SV Angel partners wrote: The amount of money raised in seed rounds has doubled and valuations have increased significantly. I thought I’d go back over the last three USV funds and see what I could learn about the market from our […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonA few weeks ago, our portfolio company Coinbase announced that they had acquired a company called Paradex, which operates a 0x relay (in other words a decentralized exchange). If you want to know more about what all of that means, here is a video from Token Summit where all of that is explained in […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
