A historical collection of our writing.
Living in New York City and having cut the cord years ago, Aereo has been a terrific service for us. Yesterday the US Supreme Court started hearing arguments over whether the service is legal. Timothy B. Lee has an outstanding summary of the background of the case and what’s a stake over at Vox. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday I wrote about startup wealth and randomness and got a lot of good comments. One of them led me to an important way of summarizing my argument about the role of randomness: While I wrote the post specifically about startup founders, employees and investors, I believe the same is true for […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonIn November 2010 my friend Shana Fisher sent me an email suggesting I meet Edward Norton about his crowdfunding site for charities, called CrowdRise. I was pretty dismissive in my response to Shana. I told her that USV was “all in” on Kickstarter and we did not want to invest in anything that was […] Read more
I have been writing a lot about wealth and income inequality and I am reading Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century (review forthcoming as soon as I am finished). So it seems appropriate to ask how I feel about the wealth being created by tech startups for entrepreneurs, early employees and […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Chris Dixon recently wrote a post about the decline of the mobile web and the shift to apps and how that is hurting innovation. Fred expanded on that theme in his post on the mobile downturn. So it is worth thinking about what we need to get to a model of permissionless innovation in mobile. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
At the moment I am writing about why I think the industrial system is breaking down as its main components are no longer functioning properly and sustaining each other. In particular I wrote about the growth and increased concentration of wealth and its relationship to our present day democracy. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
