A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company Protocol Labs is the creator of the IPFS protocol and the Filecoin protocol . The idea behind both of these open source projects is to decentralize the storage of information on the web. The Filecoin project is very ambitious. The idea is to create a decentralized storage […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI once asked a famous celebrity chef how he made his pasta taste so good. He answered “Butter. Lots of it.” When we land in Paris, jet lagged and cranky, we head right to our favorite street cafe and order strong coffee, baguettes and butter. And our systems are restored. Butter is one of my […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThis week is CS Education Week . There are CS Education week events all around the world, mostly in schools where students will do an hour of coding. In NYC, where I do most of my CS Education work, there are CS Education week events in many/most of the public school buildings this week. As […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOne of the things I am most focused on with the new AVC.com, which is coming soon, is a better search experience. I have been impressed by how much we were able to improve the search on the new USV.com and the way we did that was by using a site search service called Algolia […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonA number of elected officials tweeted “I told you so” when the news came out at the end of last week that Amazon had taken space in Hudson Yards and will move 1500 jobs there soon. While the question of what kind of public funded incentives should be used to incentivize the behavior of the […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI backed this film project this morning and am sharing it with all of you. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
