Crunchbase has a story up today explaining that Series A and Series B rounds make up between 25% and 35% of all $100mm+ “supergiant” rounds every year . […] Read more

By Fred Wilson—Dec 4, 2019

My friend Fraser took a large number of AVC blog posts over the years and trained an AI model on them. The result is a blog written by a machine. You can see it here . One one hand, it is kind of amazing that you can train a machine to write like someone. On […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Dec 3, 2019

I just nominated five candidates for the next election of the Harvard Board of Overseers as part of an effort organized by Harvard Forward . The school has made the process comically complicated by requiring that each nomination be submitted in a separate signed PDF (admittedly this could be […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Dec 3, 2019

I was listening to this podcast on the treadmill this morning. It is a conversation between Peter McCormack and Andreas Antonopoulos about Bitcoin, Privacy, Freedom, and a lot more. At one point Andreas says that we have digital money already, but it is largely debits and credits on ledgers in […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Nick Grossman—Dec 2, 2019

Last week, as I have done for the last several years, I gave a guest lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The class is DPI-662: Digital Government: Technology, Policy, and Public Service Innovation taught by my old friend David Eaves and the topic in recent years has been on […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Dec 2, 2019

We went to the Knicks Celtics game last night. For three and a half quarters the Knicks and Celtics played a tight game and the game was tied at 95 with six minutes left when Coach Fizdale called a time out. The Knicks came out of that time out befuddled and turned the ball over […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)