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Tumblr
Fred Wilson – Aug 14, 2019
The news hit yesterday that WordPress has purchased Tumblr from Verizon (which owns it by virtue of its acquisition of Yahoo! and AOL). USV seeded Tumblr along with our friends at Spark in the summer of 2007 and were actively [...] Read more
Tumblr
Fred Wilson – Aug 14, 2019
The news hit yesterday that Wordpress has purchased Tumblr from Verizon (which owns it by virtue of its acquisition of Yahoo! and AOL). USV seeded Tumblr along with our friends at Spark in the summer of 2007 and were actively [...] Read more
Open Finance First, Open Data Second
Fred Wilson – Aug 13, 2019
My partner Nick put together a deck outlining USV’s approach to crypto investing earlier this year and we have been using it with founders and investors since then. One slide I particularly like from that deck is this one which [...] Read more
Smart Thermostats
Fred Wilson – Jul 22, 2019
My colleague Dani sent me this chart last week: I believe this is more or less a proxy for smart wifi-enabled thermostats in the US. Those would be Nest, Honeywell Lyric, Hive thermostats and a lot of others too. Those [...] Read more
Parenting
Fred Wilson – Jul 21, 2019
Parenting is the hardest and greatest job that I have had. It presents the thorniest problems and generates the greatest rewards. We had the pleasure of spending most of yesterday with our three kids and their significant others. The occasion [...] Read more
Abridge
Fred Wilson – Jul 17, 2019
We seed funded a company late last year called Abridge and the company went public yesterday with their iOS and Android apps. Naomi wrote about the investment on the USV blog. I want to focus on the product because I [...] Read more
Dronebase Insights
Fred Wilson – Jul 16, 2019
I was sitting in my backyard this weekend looking up at the roof on my house, which I can’t see because of a parapet, and wondering how all of the solar panels we put up there a few years ago [...] Read more
Immigration Makes Us Stronger
Fred Wilson – Jul 15, 2019
It is ironic and upsetting that a nation built on immigration is increasingly unwelcoming to immigrants and that the words ” go back” are becoming a political rallying cry. I am for immigration full stop. I think opening our arms [...] Read more
Whales Not Unicorns
Fred Wilson – Jul 14, 2019
I have been vocal here that I do not like the term Unicorn to describe highly valued venture-backed startups. Unicorns are mythical creatures that don't really exist and highly valued venture-backed startups do exist. They might be rare, but they [...] Read more