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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

2 years

Twitter is too important to be owned and controlled by a single person. The opposite should be happening. Twitter should be decentralized as a protocol that powers an ecosystem of communication products and services.

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5 years

My son and I just did some math. If the NCAA paid 20% of it's annual NCAA Tournament broadcast revenues pro-rata to every D1 college basketball player on a team roster, each player would make something like $40k a year.

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4 years

"It’s not a fair fight, but it is one, oddly, that the small guy can compete. It might seem ludicrous – DuckDuckGo has 78 employees and Google 114,096 – but often the outcome is the same. For the majority of your searches David, it turns out, is just as good as Goliath."

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Fred Wilson

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8 years

Last night was Twitter at its finest. Anyone who says it is past its prime, irrelevant, and failing is out of their mind.

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Fred Wilson

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7 years

So many CEOs tell me that this is a game changer for them and their companies

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

5 years

In 5-10 years when we look back and consider why the next big tech sector centered itself in Asia and not in the US, it will be the SEC's unwillingness to create new rules to regulate new assets that will be the cause

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1 year

Hi @Twitter : Can you remove all the restrictions you recently put on @matthewjmandel . He's a new analyst at @USV and he wants to use Twitter as part of his job. (cc @elonmusk )

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

6 years

1/ It is a bit ironic that GDPR, a regulation to protect our privacy, has resulted in the greatest deluge of spam into my inbox that i can recall

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@fredwilson

6 years

Just because you can doesn't mean you should #280

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Fred Wilson

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5 years

When people ask me what they should read to understand crypto, I always suggest they start where it all started with the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper which is ten years old today

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

7 years

@Jason @Snap @Spotify The two greatest & most disruptive startups of the last ten years (BTC $40bn & ETH $20bn) did not emanate from SV They represent the future

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@fredwilson

4 years

I am so pleased that @jack and the Twitter team are looking into this. Having been there when "we took a different path for reasons that were reasonable at the time", I have long wished that Twitter had been built after Bitcoin not before it

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@jack

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twitter was so open early on that many saw its potential to be a decentralized internet standard, like SMTP (email protocol). For a variety of reasons, all reasonable at the time, we took a different path and increasingly centralized Twitter. But a lot’s changed over the years…

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6 years

"We think digital collectibles, and all of the games they enable, will be one of the, if not the first, big consumer use cases for blockchain technologies."

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@usv

6 years

Announcing our investment in @CryptoKitties

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

6 years

I just realized that I have not sent a tweet out to everyone who follows me in about a month. And yet I reply to tweets all the time. I have always preferred the conversational aspects of Twitter over the broadcast aspects.

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

7 years

@arrington It's hard to get excited about the thing that makes you irrelevant

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

10 years

1/ you can recognize genuinely smart people by their ability to say things like “I don’t know” “Maybe you’re right” and “I don’t understand"

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

7 years

President @realDonaldTrump 's goal with his executive orders on Friday is obvious and simple: Make America Hate Again

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

6 years

Don’t Tax Options And RSUs Upon Vesting!

Don't Tax Options And RSUs Upon Vesting!

The current draft of the Senate Tax Reform Bill would tax stock options and RSUs upon vesting. Currently, stock options are taxed upon exercise and RSUs are taxed upon release of the underlying...

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3 years

"A bad pitch is one where you do all the talking. A good one is where the investors are tripping over themselves to ask questions. So what does this imply? Keep your pitch geared towards being intriguing rather than trying to answer every question upfront." Entire post below:

Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛

@albertwenger

3 years

New blog post: Notes on fundraising

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Fred Wilson

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4 years

I am very pleased that our portfolio company @nurxapp has launched an at home Covid 19 test. I hope this can help people who are sick and need to know what they have.

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Fred Wilson

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5 years

"It is my hope that DefendCrypto will be an inspiration for the many other important crypto projects that are silently battling with the SEC to come public and raise capital from the crypto sector to fund these efforts."

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

8 years

It is important on days like today to remember that change creates opportunity and opportunity can create wealth if approached correctly

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

6 years

How Is it Possible That Satoshi Did Not Make The Short List?

TIME Announces 2017 Person of the Year Shortlist on Today Show

Here are the contenders

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

6 years

"2017 brought us many interesting things, but these three stories dominated the macro environment in tech this year. And they are related to each other in the sense that each is a reaction to power structures that are increasingly unsustainable."

What Happened In 2017

As has become my practice, I celebrate the end of a year and the start of a new one here at AVC with back to back posts focusing on what happened and then thinking about what might happen. Today, we...

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

8 years

Snapchat's best feature is that it's UI is so difficult for anyone over the age of 25 to figure out

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

5 years

@AOC I hope that the same group of dedicated NYers will work with our tech sector to find a consolation prize for LIC and the kids who are growing up in NYC, being taught STEM skills in our public schools, and want good jobs that excite them and give them a path to better lives.

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

4 years

I hope we all remember things this clearly in November.

John Heilemann

@jheil

4 years

Today, @realdonaldtrump said: “I’ve always known this is a pandemic. I’ve felt that it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic ... I’ve always viewed it as serious.” Really??? Let’s roll the tape.

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6 years

"It’s very satisfying to me to know that in an era where billions are being made walking all over our privacy, a great business can be built protecting it."

DuckDuckGo Moves Beyond Search

Our portfolio company DuckDuckGo which offers a search engine that doesn’t store your search history or track you announced some new offerings this week. Here’s a quote from the announcement: Over...

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7 years

What Is Going To Happen In 2017

Happy New Year Everyone. Yesterday we focused on the past, today we are going to focus on the future, specifically this year we are now in. Here’s what I expect to happen this year: Trump will hit...

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3 years

"we remain committed to our way of practicing venture capital ... Our funds are small. Our focus is thesis-driven. ... We publish our investment memos as blog posts. We are active partners to all the companies we invest in at all times. And our decision making is collaborative"

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3 years

New post: USV 2021 Fund

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

6 years

@jeffjarvis @ariannahuff you have to blog on your own domain. medium, facebook, linkedin, huffpo will do what are in their interests, not yours. i have been doing it every day for 15 years this year. feels great to own my archive, my brand, my content, myself.

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

7 years

@adamludwin one of the truths of successful startups. the thing you set out to make is not usually what you end up making.

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@fredwilson

6 years

"We are in the middle of a fast-paced global, unregulated, hard-to-trace, multiparty crowdfunding game driven by both optimistic speculation and ebullient house money booked during an unprecedented bull market run."

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

7 years

@Jason Past performance is a bad predictor of future returns.

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

5 years

@karaswisher I think everyone should take a step back and consider what is really going on here. i wrote this today about it

Leadership and Self Care

I saw this tweetstorm by Jack Dorsey on Saturday evening and thought “Good, Jack is taking care of himself.” For my birthday this year, I did a 10-day silent vipassana meditation, this time in Pyin...

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

4 years

Following yesterday's look back at the 2010s with a look forward at the 2020s

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What Will Happen In The 2020s

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Fred Wilson

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7 years

"We now have 30,000 data scientists .... 100x more than any other hedge fund ... we are not yet two years old"

Numerai’s Master Plan

When Numerai launched in December 2015, it was a one page website that looked like a Kaggle data science competition except everything was…

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

5 years

Back when Twitter got started we tweeted via SMS. Then they built a web app and a mobile app and tweeting via SMS stopped being a thing. But you can still do it by texting to 40404. If you have your SIM swapped, anyone can Tweet as you.

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I am checking to see if I can still tweet via SMS

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Fred Wilson

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6 years

Ten questions. A few predictions. A lot of unknowns. That is how I am going into 2018.

What Is Going To Happen In 2018

This is a post that I am struggling to write. I really have no idea what is going to happen in 2018. Will the crypto markets continue in their bull cycle? I have no clue. I was showing my daughter’s...

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

7 years

I have fantastic news. @patrickc is grabbing the torch from us and keeping the ACLU match offer marathon going. Take it from here Patrick.

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

6 years

Happy Earth Day Everyone. These are solar panels we are having installed on the roof of our home. I can't think of a better present for planet Earth than investing in clean energy.

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

7 years

@Jason @Snap @Spotify Laugh all you want. That makes me even more confident that this is the future. Return and Ridicule.

Return and Ridicule

I am going down to Princeton today to talk to Ed Zschau’s class on entrepreneurship today. Ed asked me what I wanted to talk about. I told him “return and ridicule”. I have found that return and...

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

3 years

@jerrybrito @RonWyden Senator Wyden has been a champion of the crypto developers and ecosystem throughout these negotiations and we all thank him for that.

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

5 years

@andrewrsorkin The epidemic is with "progressive" politicians who are actually anti progress. We should called them regressives. The losers here are the next generation who just lost a lot of good job opportunities.

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@fredwilson

7 years

"there is one thing that continues to grow and outpace our peers: Twitter’s influence and impact.". Yup. Long TWTR.

jack

@jack

7 years

I just published “Twitter Q416 Earnings Call”

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

5 years

So the SEC's decision to force US crypto exchanges to delist assets is very damaging policy because it pushes all of the liquidity and trading volume to Asia and will result in the crypto sector following it there

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

8 years

Just put the Twitter app on my AppleTV so I can watch Jets Bills tomorrow night on Twitter

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Fred Wilson

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6 years

Web 3 is "not in an infrastructure phase, but rather in another turn of the apps-infrastructure cycle" .

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

5 years

@alexiskold They adopt it in college and even more so when they join the work force. I've seen it again and again with my kids and their friends. I've heard people predict the death of email for twenty years and it just gets stronger and stronger.

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

8 years

11/ Twitter is that person who is hard to get to know but once you get past their hard exterior turn out to be the best friend you ever had

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

4 years

that quote is from Wired UK's excellent piece on USV's portfolio company DuckDuckGo

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8 years

Watching the game on Twitter on AppleTV with Tweets on the right side of the screen is nice

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Fred Wilson

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3 years

@cdixon have you ever said/written "come for the assets, stay for the experience"?

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Fred Wilson

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8 years

I start every day with Twitter. there is no better way to figure out what is going on. #LoveTwitter

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Fred Wilson

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3 years

@paulg A danger to America but a benefit to the world.

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

7 years

Internet treasures don't die so easily and @SoundCloud is one of the most treasured parts of the Internet

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7 years

As I said @SoundCloud is here to stay. I'm very excited to announce that we're ready and strong for decade II.

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Fred Wilson

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5 years

Some news on the USV blog today

USV 2019 Funds | Union Square Ventures

We are pleased to announce that we have raised two new funds. The 2019 Core Fund has commitments of $200 million (up slightly from our last few core funds

www.usv.com

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

7 years

I am running a side by side comparison. Stay tuned for the results in a few weeks

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2 years

The President's Executive Order on Web3 is a landmark moment. Finally, we have the federal government focused on Web3 and organizing itself to engage constructively with the sector. This is long overdue:

Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets | The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. Advances in digital and distributed...

www.whitehouse.gov

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

6 years

"it was hard to separate the Amazons and Googles from the Pets.coms and eToys." But as 99/00/01 taught us, that is what we must do.

Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not (Published 2018)

The revolution will be ushered in by young people who are also cryptocurrency millionaires. Oh wait, they may be broke already.

www.nytimes.com

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Fred Wilson

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6 years

"we believe 2012-16 was a bubble in early-stage funding"

There’s an implosion of early-stage VC funding, and no one’s talking about it | TechCrunch

Amid record amounts of capital raised by VCs worldwide, and a sharp rise in the number of private "unicorns," there has been a quiet, barely noticed implosion in early-stage VC activity worldwide....

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

7 years

sometimes i read a reported piece and i think "how did my words end up being reported in this way"? this is one of those times.

CNBC

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7 years

Fred Wilson throws a little cold water on bitcoin enthusiasts

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

4 years

The idea of turning Twitter into a protocol and allowing an entire ecosystem of applications to flourish on top of it is breathtaking in it's ambition and importance for all of the reasons @jack outlines in his tweetstorm this morning.

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Fred Wilson

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5 years

@danprimack I think the truth is somewhere in between. Ownership levels have been coming down in VC over the last thirty years. When I got into VC in the mid 80s it was very typical for a VC to want 25% of the company. Then it became 20%. Then 15%. Now we ask ourselves if we can get to 10%

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Fred Wilson

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10 years

“After” has more than a million readers, Wattpad says. http://t.co/s1XUxBFNpF [how many published books a year get to that level?]

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Fred Wilson

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6 years

My vote for the next Knicks head coach is Becky Hammon who lit up The Garden as a player and who has been mentored by Pop for the last four years. The New Yorker has a great profile of her in the current issue

How Far Can Becky Hammon Go in the N.B.A.?

The former women’s-basketball star has broken convention by becoming the league’s first female assistant coach.

www.newyorker.com

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

4 years

The calendar is a great way to hold someone accountable for their words

The Recount

@therecount

4 years

President Trump’s weeks of downplaying the coronavirus have evolved into weeks of shifting the blame.

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

4 years

After months of work with a great group of partners, I have relaunched AVC. It is the third iteration of the AVC blog. Details are in the blog post below.

avc

@avc

4 years

AVC 3.0

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

6 years

To be clear. I'm not against #280 . But I think less is more, always

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

7 years

this is both awesome and scary

William Mougayar

@wmougayar

7 years

This was my Inbox this morning. 15 ICOs closing in 36h. As @fredwilson writes this morning, buyer beware.

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Fred Wilson

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6 years

“Writing smaller checks allows us to stay true to our DNA, remain nimble and fulfill our commitment to supporting founders". It's a contrarian approach in this market but the "stay small" movement is my comfort zone too.

A Fresh Perspective on Seed Investing

The investing ecosystem has gone through significant changes over the last 10 years. When we started SV Angel, there were just a handful of…

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

2 years

There is something quite magical about attending a live minting of generative art. The digital and physical realms coming together to create something unique and amazing.

Juan Segura

@JuanGSegura

2 years

So incredible to see my artwork in such a great space #kraftwerkberlin Props to @brtmoments for the awesome setup!

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Fred Wilson

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6 years

"no one is in charge" that is a feature, not a bug, folks

An Expert's Guide to Navigating the World of Bitcoin

A Q&A between Julie Verhage and Elaine Ou on crypto-assets and the resources involved in bitcoin mining.

www.bloomberg.com

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

6 years

@paulkrugman it is good every single thing that author listed and many more. he makes a great case for its utility but just comes to the wrong conclusions, largely because of the immaturity of the infrastructure and dev tools right now. a lot like Internet pre the 2000 decade

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Fred Wilson

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3 years

I spent 3.33 Bitcoin Cash tokens this morning to buy the 13th issued Tyrese Haliburton rookie moment on NBA Top Shot. ? It will be interesting to see which is worth more in five years. Or ten years.

Tyrese Haliburton sinks runner in the paint in first NBA appearance -...

Dec 23 2020 — When the soft touch translates to the pro game, you’re in for a show! Sacramento Kings rookie Tyrese Haliburton floats home his first career bucket from just outside the paint. The...

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Fred Wilson

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3 years

"If the United States was developing a digital dollar, then those millions of at-risk individuals would have been able to receive their economic stimulus funds via any one of the popular mobile apps that support or will soon support digital assets"

Educating Electeds

A number of members of Congress sent a letter to the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Tuesday. I have embedded it below but readers via email may need to click here to read it. Letter...

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

8 years

We had unanimous support in our firm for this endorsement.

USV

@usv

8 years

Union Square Ventures endorses Hillary Clinton for President:

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Fred Wilson

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6 years

Good News: Update On Stock Options/RSUs Issue

Update On Stock Options/RSUs Issue

I just saw this on my twitter: The @NVCA has been working hard to make sure #innovation & #entrepreneurship are drivers of US growth!#TaxReform pic.twitter.com/q1Ez7EfbC7 — Phil Sanderson (@SanFran...

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

5 years

Or better yet, were allowed to opt out of the school shoe contracts and negotiate their own?

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@fredwilson

7 years

"an unprecedented reaction". I hope we can sustain this response.

Gavin Sheridan

@gavinsblog

7 years

ACLU raised *$10 million* in 48 hours.

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Fred Wilson

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7 years

A $20,000 Match Offer On ACLU Donations Today. Tweet your ACLU receipts to @bfeld @abatchelor @thegothamgal or me

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@fredwilson

4 years

van Gogh: The Mulberry Tree (@ Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA)

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5 years

"This Framework weighed heavily in our decision to geofence the trading of some assets from U.S. customers of Poloniex"

Our take: Interpreting recent signals from US regulatory agencies

Circle's take on recent activity around digital assets from US regulatory agencies. Read on to learn our thoughts!

www.circle.com

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@fredwilson

5 years

"We're trying to build an ecosystem where you can earn kin in one application and spend it in another"

Apps for Kik's Crypto Are Beginning to Appear on Apple and Google Stores

A common critique of crypto is that it lacks uses, but Kik has funded apps to churn out almost three dozen new ways to earn and spend its token.

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

8 years

Not On Facebook. Not On Instagram. Not On Snapchat.

The Twitter Contradiction

So everyone around here knows I’m bullish on Twitter and we own a lot of stock. So take all of this in that context please. I just don’t understand the narrative around Twitter. “It is in trouble. It...

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7 years

"These big trends are not that hard to spot...We’re in the middle of an obvious one right now: machine learning & artificial intelligence"

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

8 years

The Highline btwn 23rd & 34th St is an object lesson in the vital role public spaces play in economic development

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

6 years

An app store for Dapps across many competing platforms. That's how the decentralized web rolls

Ryan Shea

@ryaneshea

6 years

We’re excited to announce the first universal app store for decentralized apps - Find apps on Ethereum, Blockstack, IPFS, Steem, EOS and more If you’re a dapp developer, submit your decentralized app today

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Tech is an important part of the NY economy, but @NYSA_Majority & @NYSenate are ignoring that with a terrible anti-tech bill A8704C/S6340A

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7 years

"SoundCloud is not going away. Not in 50 days, not in 80 days, or in the foreseeable future. Your music is safe."

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

6 years

"For all their brilliance, the inventors of ... the internet failed to include some key elements that would later prove critical to the future of online culture ... they did not create a secure open standard that established human identity on the network."

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6 years

something VC firms can do for their portfolio companies is to provide training programs that the smaller companies can't justify on their own

USV

@usv

6 years

Last year, @USV Manager Bootcamp trained more than 100 managers from 30 USV portfolio companies. Read more here:

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

3 years

"this amendment clarifies in law that validators of distributed ledger data, like miners, hardware wallet providers, & software developers, should not be required to report transaction data to the IRS. This is common sense, these are not the ones conducting transactions."

Senator Cynthia Lummis

@SenLummis

3 years

We need to pass the Wyden-Lummis-Toomey Amendment. If we fail now, it will have a real impact, not only on innovators today, but by threatening to cede tomorrow to a host of others on foreign shores.

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5 years

A dream job: Stack is an internet treasure

Joel Spolsky

@spolsky

5 years

We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I’m stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the role of Chairman of the Board.

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6 years

“Some people thought this was junk spectrum — but we can create an always available, bottom up, decentralized mesh network like this. If things go down, you can’t have Netflix, but you can say ‘hey, meet me here.’ ”

A mesh network spontaneously erupts in the US and helps connect Puerto Rico | TechCrunch

When goTenna put out their Mesh device earlier this year, I thought the off-grid gadgets would be great for an emergency kit or back-country hike. But it turns out that I underestimated the demand...

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

5 years

But what if players also got 20% of shoe contracts?

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@fredwilson

2 years

I just awoke to the news that The Merge was completed successfully a few hours ago. Congratulations and thanks to everyone in the ETH community for making this happen. Here's why this is so important

The Merge

In about a month, an important moment will happen in the world of crypto/web3. The Ethereum blockchain will move from a proof of work consensus mechanism to a proof of stake consensus mechanism. This...

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

11 years

This fantastic curated reading list (by @teisenmann ) shows that blogs are a fantastic source of startup knowledge http://t.co/oFEVFEKD

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

4 years

Many parents are now forced into home schooling our children until our schools can reopen. That means we have some ability to impact their curriculum. One thing to consider adding is computer science and now you can do that for free (limited at this time to the first 10,000)

zach sims

@zsims

4 years

1/ To help students and teachers affected by COVID-19 and school closures around the world, we are offering 10,000 scholarships to @Codecademy Pro for free to students and teachers across the world. What does this mean?

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Fred Wilson

@fredwilson

19 days

Some thoughts on the SEC's Wells Notice to our portfolio company Uniswap Labs today

USV

@usv

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USV has been investing in the digital asset sector for over a decade. We believe that blockchain technology allows for the creation of open, transparent, and efficient marketplaces that deliver value to consumers and creators. USV also believes that most digital assets are not…

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