A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonI saw this tweet in my feed yesterday and read the New Yorker piece when I woke up this morning: @fdestin @MacConwell @HarryStebbings any VC ‘fairy godfathers of success’ viewpoints? “Building a solid business, but the V.C.s wanted fantasy....the hope that one lucky wager would more than offset […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThere are many ways to invest successfully. Public stocks, bonds, private equity, real estate, venture capital, etc. And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities. In public stocks, there are something like 5,000 listed stocks in the US. In venture capital, there […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI was on a zoom board meeting in early July and one of the board members started whipping out cards instead of interrupting. I captured the moment because I thought it was awesome. Since then, I have wanted my own set of zoom meeting cards, but never took the initiative to make them. So when […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe latest charade of bringing Jack and Zuck in front of Congress to yell at them reminds me that our elected officials and regulators don’t have a plan for how to properly regulate social media. Jack and Zuck probably do have a plan and if they play their cards correctly, they will be able to […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWhen I go back and read my Jan 1st post on what would happen in the 2020s , I am reminded how hard it is to predict the future. The Covid Pandemic changed everything in 2020 and likely for years to come. And yet it was not one of my predictions, even though Covid was […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonA reader emailed me yesterday and I replied: Hi Fred, do you have any suggestion for good primers/book explaining cryptocurrencies a bit better to the inexperienced and uninitiated? i would start at the start https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf The Bitcoin Whitepaper , originally published in October […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
