A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company Coinbase released an open source framework for crypto asssets to make it easier to list them on crypto exchanges. It is called Rosetta . Coinbase is encouraging blockchain projects to integrate Rosetta so that they can more easily list new assets on the Coinbase Exchange. But […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company Recount Media , which I have blogged about here before, recently launched an interesting partnership between Recount, Twitter, and brand marketers. They are calling this partnership “Real-Time Recount.” Recount is a news organization which publishes short-form video news on […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWe have a book club at USV. We read one book together every month and then discuss it over lunch. Today, we are going to discuss Enemy Of All Mankind , the story of the British pirate of the late 17th century, Henry Every . The book was written by our friend and former USV […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonMost (all?) of our portfolio companies have been working remotely for over three months now. So have we at USV. The initial experience with remote work has been mostly positive. The typical comment has been “we are doing a lot better than I expected.” Productivity is up in some places, down in some […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe Gotham Gal and I have been donating to bail funds for a while now. This Positively Gotham Gal podcast from April 2019 with Robin Steinberg of The Bail Project is a great education into the bail system and why it is so problematic. Now, with protestors around the world being arrested, bail funds […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonLast December, my friend Brad Feld stopped by to see me in Los Angeles and I proudly showed him my home office with a separate Zoom Room . He looked at me with a quizzical look on his face and said “why don’t you have two screens on the wall?” I asked why and he […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
