A historical collection of our writing.
There is a confusion about Bitcoin that trips up a lots of people when they first learn about it: the blockchain is organizationally decentralized but logically centralized! What does this mean? Here is a 2 x 2 matrix that should help: The “organizationally centralized” column on the left contains […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWhen you say “the stock is trading at 20x revenues” people rightly shake their head and say “that is nuts.” I got a lot of tweets like that in reaction to my comments about the Uber valuation in the LeWeb breakfast chat. However, what people fail to realize is these things happen in a moment […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Today our portfolio company Lending Club went public. Congratulations to the team And here is founder Renaud Laplanche on the business […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonWhen you say “the stock is trading at 20x revenues” people rightly shake their head and say “that is nuts.” I got a lot of tweets like that in reaction to my comments about the Uber valuation in the LeWeb breakfast chat. However, what people fail to realize is these things happen in a moment […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
I have only written about torture once before here on Continuations as part of my mini review of Zero Dark Thirty. I am glad that after long delays we at least now have a summary of the Senate’s Torture Report. Together with Guantanamo Bay itself, which I have mentioned a few times, and the Drone […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Imagine a global database (or a set of global databases) that every application plugs into. That’s the general idea behind the Shared Data Layer. As the name suggests, it’s a data storage layer that is decentralized and open to everyone. […] Read more (opens Joel Monegro in a new tab)
