A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonIt’s winter in NYC now and I am reminded of all the apartments the Gotham Gal and I lived in during our 20s and 30s in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The typical heating system was hot water or steam-powered radiators that clanged all night long and had two settings, on and off. Sometimes the handle […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThis is a theme I have come back to many times over the last decade but in the wake of all of the headlines about high profile founders, VCs, and companies leaving the bay area, I thought I would return to it. There is no question that the bay area is losing some talent to […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonA few years ago, maybe in 2016, we held a discussion of blockchain and crypto technologies at the annual meeting of our limited partners. I recall someone in the audience suggesting that the NYSE and Nasdaq could rebuild their markets on top of these technologies. I replied that I thought it was […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI saw this project as I was browsing Kickstarter this morning and I watched the video and thought “I need to get one of those.” If you would like to display a favorite photograph in holograph form you can back this project and get one for yourself here . USV TEAM POSTS: […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI have written about stablecoins a bunch here at AVC. I believe cryptocurrencies that are not highly volatile are important for use cases like e-commerce. I explained why here . So we need crypto assets that are price stabilized and one of the best ways to do that is to peg a crypto asset to […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIt is very typical that options and RSUs that are issued to new employees upon joining a company will have “one year cliff vesting.” This means that the first year of vesting into your options or RSUs will not happen until you have completed one entire year. After that vesting usually happens […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
