A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonOnce a year, tech companies in NYC run a fair for high school computer science students in NYC. This was last year: Tech companies set up booths and the students come by the booths learning about what it is like to work in a tech company. Colleges and Universities that offer undergraduate computer […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonFounder vesting is when founders agree that their founder’s stock will vest over some period of time, normally four years. Many times we will come across a company that we might want to invest in and when we look into the cap table and documents, we see that the founders were granted their shares […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI have been listening to Nassim Nicholas Taleb ‘s new book, Skin In The Game , in audiobook form while driving around LA this past week. I’ve always been a fan of having skin in the game and others having skin in the game and so it’s a topic that makes a lot of sense […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI told this story last night at dinner to the Gotham Gal (who has heard it many times) and two friends who are in the investment business. They loved it. I’ve blogged it before, but it has been almost ten years since I’ve told it here. So I am going to share it with all […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonFirst a disclosure for all the disclosure enthusiasts who hound me here and on Twitter to disclose things that are well known to most readers in hopes of turning this blog into a legal document: USV is a large investor in Coinbase and I am on the Board of Coinbase. Ok, now that we have […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonEverywhere I look on the west side of Los Angeles, I see Bird Scooters . These are electric scooters you can rent from your mobile phone. They look like this: I finally got around to taking a ride on a Bird today. After you download the app on your phone, you snap a picture of […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
