A historical collection of our writing.
There is lots wrong with the healthcare and health insurance system in the US. One can also have a rational debate of the pros and cons of the Affordable Care Act and how we might proceed from here. What should not happen, however, is pushing through poorly thought through measures just for the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonYesterday the SEC issued a report of investigation finding that DAO Tokens are securities under U.S. law. This report sent shock waves across the crypto sector leading to roughly 10% declines in the major cryptocurrencies. I must have received a dozen or more emails from people saying that “ICOs […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Just as a reminder, we have been spending the last few weeks of Uncertainty Wednesday exploring different measures of uncertainty. We first looked at entropy which is a measure based only on the states of the probability distributions itself. We then encountered random variables, which associate […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIn the summer of 2008, I attended the SeedCamp in London and the winner of that class was a company called Zemanta, out of Ljubljana Slovenia. I was taken with everything about Zemanta; a small team (three founders), out of a place that I had never been to and had barely heard of, winning the […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
The dominant position of companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon is sure receiving a lot more attention these days. There is critical media coverage, including in traditionally pro business publications such as the Wall Street Journal “Can the Tech Giants Be Stopped?” and Bloomberg “Should […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I previously wrote a review of Yuval Harari’s Sapiens, which I highly recommended, despite fundamentally disagreeing with one of its central arguments. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about Homo Deus. While the book asks incredibly important questions about the future of humanity, it not only […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
