By Fred Wilson—Nov 6, 2020

I’ve always been a fan of music in the shower. So when a long time AVC reader sent me a link to his Kickstarter project, Shower Power , I immediately backed it. If you are into music in the shower like I am, you might want to check it out and support it too. USV […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Nov 5, 2020

There was a good Twitter discussion of this issue over the weekend between some folks who work in the VC sector. I think it is worth sharing more broadly. Here it is as a Twitter Moment . Early Liquidity vs Holding USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Oct 30, 2020 The Coming Fight for Control […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Nov 4, 2020

Well, we don’t know who won the election this morning, but we know that the turnout was the strongest in 120 years at roughly 2/3 of eligible voters. We can thank mail-in votes and early voting for that. Some will take offense at the late counting of mail-in votes and claim fraud. I am not […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Nov 3, 2020

I am not working today. USV gave everyone the day off. It is Election Day in the US. I believe it should be a national holiday so everyone can have the day off and vote. I can’t think of many things more important than participating in the selection of our government. I saw that over […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Nov 2, 2020

I was talking to a group of education entrepreneurs (on Zoom naturally) last week and was advocating for the “direct to learner” approach that defines our eduction investing strategy at USV. For the most part, we do not like to back companies that sell learning tools to educational institutions. We […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Oct 30, 2020

This project has a bunch of things that interest/excite me: 1/ Entrepreneurs committing to building new things in NYC during the pandemic 2/ Young chefs going out on their own 3/ Brooklyn 4/ Jelly donuts I backed this project just now and took the jelly donuts reward because how could I resist? The […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)