A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonThis past week Laura Shin did an interview with Vitalik Buterin , the founder of the Ethereum project. I am going to run a video of that conversation next week. Laura started her interview with Vitalik by playing for him and everyone else in the room a bit of this conversation Tushar Jain and I […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe AVC comments has been experiencing a wave of comment spam that has largely been replies to legit comments. I appreciate the community for flagging it and our moderators for nuking it. Keeping the comments free from spam is important to me but not an easy chore. One idea I have, which I don’t […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWhen early stage investors make an equity (angel, seed, Srs A, Srs B) investment, they typically negotiate for something called a pro-rata right which gives them the right to maintain their ownership in the company by investing in future rounds on the same terms as new investors. I have written […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe most common caller on my Android phone is Scam Likely. I am sure that most of you are in a similar situation. Last week we were driving and two calls came into The Gotham Gal’s phone which was bluetoothed into our car and she declined both. I asked her why she did that. She […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIn my What Is Going To Happen In 2019 post, I wrote: I expect we will see IPOs from big names like Uber/Lyft/Slack, although I also expect those deals will get priced well below the lofty expectations they have in mind right now. Some of that will be because of weak equity markets in the […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonMany people who follow tech know that Spotify has filed a complaint with the European Commission regarding the challenges that Spotify has doing business in the iOS app store. I am very sympathetic to Spotify’s complaint. In my post last week on The Warren Breakup Plan , I wrote: The mobile app […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
