A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonI have been recommending our portfolio company Code Climate ‘s relatively new Velocity product in most of my recent Board meetings. I hear from management teams again and again that they want to understand their engineering utilization and velocity and benchmark it. Everyone feels like they are not […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
No Uncertainty Wednesday today. I had shoulder surgery yesterday to repair a rotator cuff injury. That means I won’t be able to type for quite a few days. I am creating this post using Voice on my Android phone. Impressively I did not have to correct a single word. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI was watching last night’s game between the Celtics and the Cavs and I was thinking about the fantastic young players the Celtics have on that team, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart, and Terry Rozier. As good as those players are, it felt like the enormity of what they have accomplished […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonLast week, I was asked this question on Twitter: Crypto Twitter — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) May 14, 2018 But if you want to read CryptoTwitter, what is the best way to do that? I have curated a bunch of people to follow in my timeline over the last seven years so CryptoTwitter is part of […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from World After Capital is about attention. It argues why attention is scarce in the sense of scarcity introduced earlier in the book. This section sets up the demands on attention and then talks about scarcity of attention for the individual (next time will look at scarcity […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
What is the future that will unfold? Some like it hot , others like it cold But we all want to hold the remote control -Beastie Boys Sometimes a service provides a value to its customers that may not be readily apparent at first glance. And sometimes that value can be more fundamentally important to […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
