A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonIf there is a technology that has overpromised and underdelivered more than AR/VR over the last five years, I am not sure what it is. Facebook paid $2bn (or possibly more) for Oculus in the spring of 2014 and maybe a couple million Oculus headsets have been sold since then. And Facebook is […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonBeing a Knicks fan teaches you a lot about disappointment. At one point this spring, we thought we were going to get a couple top free agents and the first pick in the draft. We ended up with a lot less. Fortunately, I have learned a lot about disappointment in three decades of backing early-stage […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonChristopher Mims has a good post on the 5G headaches that are in store for those of us in the US as we roll out 5G: The Downside of 5G: Overwhelmed Cities, Torn-Up Streets, a Decade Until Completion As carriers launch their 5G networks, the promise of superfast wireless is clashing with the reality […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonJuan Benet , founder and CEO of our portfolio company Protocol Labs , developer of the IPFS and Filecoin protocols, gave this talk last fall. I like Juan’s statement, about 10mins into this talk, that “what Bitcoin did to money, Web3 does to everything.” That is obviously a very big […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonDavid Kelnar sent me this deck that he did on the state of AI . It is very good. This slide got my attention: It is interesting, and not totally surprising, that the sector that AI-focused entrepreneurs are targeting more than any other is health and wellbeing. It seems like there is so much […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIf you are feeling a little low on energy and want a pick me up, go to a high school graduation. You could simply crash any graduation, you don’t need to know anyone graduating. They are such feel good events. I went to the AFSE graduation yesterday. This is the fourth glass that has graduated […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
