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Keeping Your Blinders On
Fred Wilson – Jul 3, 2018
Last night I picked up my phone after a long and fun dinner party and saw that the Golden State Warriors had signed Boogie Cousins (one of the most talented big men in the NBA) to a one year mid [...] Read more
The path to decentralization: self-destructing companies
Nick Grossman – Jul 2, 2018
In June, the SEC gave some of its most concrete guidance to date that cryptoassets can start out as centralized projects, possibly initially sold under securities laws, and eventually become “decentralized” and thus no longer sponsor-controlled, and no longer sold [...] Read more
Hyper Social Not Anti Social
Fred Wilson – Jul 2, 2018
This seems right to me: “In post-industrial environments where foods are abundant and readily available, our cravings for fat and sugar sculpted by distant evolutionary pressures can easily go into insatiable overdrive and lead to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease [...] Read more
World After Capital: Limits of Capitalism (Intro & Missing Prices)
Albert Wenger – Jul 2, 2018
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from World After Capital starts to explain why capitalism cannot solve the problem of allocating attention which is scarce at the individual and collective levels. Capitalism has been extraordinarily successful. So much so that even communist countries [...] Read more
The Final Push
Fred Wilson – Jul 1, 2018
We spent the last week getting a project we’ve been working on for two years over the finish line. I find that the last 10% is so much harder than the first 90% of any project. That is true whether [...] Read more