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Mar 6, 2019

Daniel Olshansky asked me this question on Twitter: @fredwilson Have you ever written about how to avoid "rest and vest" culture where there are employees who want to leave a company but are held down by golden handcuffs?— Daniel Olshansky Read more

Mar 6, 2019

Mar 5, 2019

Howard has a great (and short!) post on how blogging publicly gives you a timeline on how you were thinking at a given time. He’s right, it is awesome to be able to go back and see what you were Read more

Mar 4, 2019

Last night CBS 60 Minutes aired a piece about the gender gap in tech and left out a number of important efforts to close the gap. My friend Rob Underwood tweeted this out about that piece: I admire work of Read more

Mar 3, 2019

A friend of mine sent me this the other day. Two AVC posts were at or near the top of Hacker News. But I did not go and read the comments as I have found the comments at Hacker News Read more

Mar 2, 2019

One of our first crypto investments maybe five years ago was Mediachain, founded by Denis Nazarov (@Iiterature ), and Jesse Walden (@jessewldn ). They sold that company to Spotify and eventually landed at A16Z crypto. One of the USV analysts Read more

Mar 1, 2019

This ran as a full page ad in the New York Times today. I signed it along with the top labor leaders in NYC, the top political leaders in NYC, top business execs, and the leaders of NYC’s higher education Read more

Feb 28, 2019

Chris Burniske reminded me yesterday of something I said a while ago: "The lesson I’ve learned in my career is to invest into the post crash cycle. When you do that, and do it intelligently, you are rewarded greatly" – Read more

Feb 27, 2019

I don’t write a lot about Etsy here at AVC. It is a public company and I am the Chairman so I have to be careful. But today Etsy is announcing something that makes me so proud. I have to Read more