By Fred Wilson—Jun 24, 2018

There is a bill in front of the NYC City Council called Intro 981 that will impose reporting requirements on Airbnb and their hosts in NYC. There will be a public debate on that bill this coming week. The backdrop here is the growing housing affordability crisis in NYC and the idea that Airbnb is […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Jun 24, 2018

Yesterday, I tweeted that I considered Sarah Sanders tweet about being asked to leave the Red Hen restaurant an abuse of government power. Since I got quite a few questions on Twitter about that I want to elaborate the argument in a blog post. Sarah Sanders is currently the White House Press […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Jun 23, 2018

Last month, at the Consensus 2018 Conference, Paul Vigna of the WSJ, Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan , and I had a 30min discussion of all things crypto. Here is a video of that discussion : USV TEAM POSTS: Bethany Marz Crystal — June 21, 2018 USV Intern Day […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Jun 21, 2018

I saw this tweetstorm today from Suhail Doshi, founder of Mixpanel. 1/ Getting my first 100 customers always felt like a puzzle. The next 1000 seemed unreachable. Besides, how can you get feedback to make the product better w/o users? After many years, we ended up w/ 6,000+ paying customers. It was […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Nick Grossman—Jun 20, 2018

I was at an event last night, where the moderator, Preeti Varathan from QZ observed that there seemed to be a lot of cynicism in the blockchain / crypto space — in other words, that the whole thing was essentially premised on a distrust of existing systems (fiat currencies, large internet […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Jun 20, 2018

Today is our thirty-first wedding anniversary. We got married on a hot steamy June night in the Washington DC area. During the official part of the event, the skies opened up and it poured. After that, the heat and humidity dissipated and we had a really fun party. It has been a productive […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)