A historical collection of our writing.
I have written fairly extensively here on Continuations about climate change, including several times as part of Uncertainty Wednesday. I have also previously stated my support for geo-engineering research as far back as 2009 and again more recently in 2016. A common objection to geo-engineering is […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalIt’s really fun to be the person sent in to stress test new systems. I get to do this a lot in the software / tech space, but rarely am I sent in as the guinea pig for “IRL” (in real life) stress tests. That’s why these next two weeks are so exciting. I’m spending […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalIt was close to midnight. All the bars and bistros had just closed, leaving me alone on a dark, quiet street in the south of France with a major problem at hand: I hadn’t written down the keycode needed to re-enter my hotel. Being such a small town, the front desk receptionist had left at […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWith the news of Google and Amazon’s huge expansions into NYC, many people are asking “how did NYC tech get to this place?” Well, I am going to post a 25 minute video history lesson at the end of this blog post that explains that. But first, I’d like to talk about how I ended […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Debt is a complicated subject. On the one hand, it is empowering — it lets you get a quick start on something, and lets you do things that would not be possible otherwise. There are times when it is useful, necessary, and unavoidable. I think about “debt” in the broadest possible terms: times when […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOur portfolio company SoundCloud just launched a pretty cool thing. If you are a DJ and use one of the popular DJ software products, you can plug SoundCloud into it and make your mixes right from the cloud . Here’s a 15 second video advertisement for this new feature: SoundCloud has announced that […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
