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Code Execution: Where Are the Clouds Headed?
Albert Wenger – Jan 12, 2015
It is hard for me to believe that I wrote my post “I Want a New Platform” over seven years ago. At the time that post led to our investment in MongoDB, which was then called 10gen. The company was [...] Read more
The Charlie Hebdo Massacre: We Need a Coherent Alternative Idea
Albert Wenger – Jan 8, 2015
Why write here about the massacre at the offices of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo? Because most of what I have been writing on Continuations is about developing a coherent view of what comes next for humanity. It is about [...] Read more
Vice on Universal Basic Income: A Response
Albert Wenger – Jan 7, 2015
I was going to write some more about deflation today but then Vice posted a piece on Universal Basic Income (UBI) by Nathan Schneider yesterday. I suggest you read it and then come back here for a response. 1. After [...] Read more
Towards Deflation: Healthcare
Albert Wenger – Jan 6, 2015
Yesterday I wrote about how free or low priced online courses are beginning to put pressure on pricing in education. As a small addendum to that: the same day the New York Times ran a front page story about home [...] Read more
Towards Deflation: Education
Albert Wenger – Jan 5, 2015
I have been arguing that we live in an era of technological deflation driven by advances in computing (including robotics). In the US, the prices for consumer durables peaked in the mid 1990s as this chart from the St. Louis [...] Read more
Underwater World: Diving in Belize
Albert Wenger – Jan 4, 2015
A couple of years back we got scuba certified as a family. This year we took our first real dive trip. We stayed at the amazingly located Itza Lodge on Long Caye which is part of the Lighthouse Reef in [...] Read more
Mobile Innovation: We Need to Get Past the App Store Duopoly
Albert Wenger – Dec 17, 2014
The shift to mobile computing is fully underway. Over time everyone in the world will have a smartphone and data speeds will go up (and hopefully prices for data plans will come down). So the race is on to find [...] Read more
Bitcoin: Clarifying the Foundational Innovation of the Blockchain
Albert Wenger – Dec 15, 2014
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 [...] Read more
Lending Club IPO
Albert Wenger – Dec 11, 2014
Today our portfolio company Lending Club went public. Congratulations to the team And here is founder Renaud Laplanche on the business Read more