A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonUSV recently made two investments in hedge fund managers. You might gather from that fact that we are moving away from venture capital. But that would be an incorrect assumption. What we are doing is finding new ways to invest in technologies that we think are interesting. These would be […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThere is a lot of cutting edge computer science being used in blockchain technology and, because there are multiple blockchains and protocols being proposed and tested, there are various experiments going on at the same time. This is all very good in my view. We will eventually figure out which […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
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Brad Burnham Fred WilsonAndy Weissman
John Buttrick
Albert Wenger
This is the fourth presidential election during the existence of Union Square Ventures and the first one in which we as a firm feel compelled to endorse a candidate: Hillary Clinton. As investors in technology companies, we believe that technology and innovation create broad opportunity and improve […] Read more
Fred WilsonI came across this chart today. Maybe all of you have seen it, but I hadn’t. It is called “the elephant chart” because the shape of the chart looks like an elephant. It was created by Christoph Lakner and Bruno Milanovic for their book, Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonSo Scott Galloway thinks Tumblr was nothing more than a “porn site.” I think that is a ridiculous comment coming from someone who says ridiculous things. Tumblr was, and still is, a vibrant social media platform. Just talk to the tens of million of people who have had Tumblr blogs and have gotten […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIn a venture fund, the general partners will make something like twenty or twenty five investments. There are outliers for sure. A few venture funds will make less investments than that. And there are seed funds that will make significantly more investments than that. But that’s not the point of […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
