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USV's Slow Hunch

Although I avoid doing podcasts like the plague, I did participate in one recently along with my partner Brad who co-founded USV with me back in 2003. Our partner Nick has a podcast called The Slow Hunch. The title was inspired by our friend Steven Johnson's Where Good Ideas Come From. Nick asked Brad and me to sit in his apartment, drink tea, and talk about USV and the Slow Hunch that brought us together to make USV and point it in the right direction 20+ years ago. While much of this conver...

Drinking From A Firehose

I read this in Yoni Rechtman's substack today:oversized funds lead to overfunded companies leads to bad returns and more importantly bad outcomes for founders/businesses. We’ll get Softbank 2.0 but even more widespread: every company could be super lean and profitable but instead will be pushed toward undisciplined and ruinous spendingThis is not a new state of play. This has been the venture capital business for well over a decade now. Every breakout company in our portfolios is offered 10x ...

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Framework At The Refinery

Back during COVID, the Gotham Gal and I, along with the team in our family office, debuted our "sustainable" apartment building development business in Brooklyn, called Frame Home. We had two small ground floor retail spaces to lease in our first building, Frame283, and nobody wanted them. So Alex O'Daly, who helps us run our family office, suggested we make a "covid safe co-working space" in the ground floor. And so we did. We called it Framework and it opened in early 2021. The concept is s...

Predictions vs Provocations

A lot of people reacted to my New Years Day predictions post with skepticism. And rightly so. Some of the "predictions" were pretty far out. But that was the point. I probably should have called them provocations not predictions. That post was a list of things that I feel should happen, not so much what will happen. Our business is about teaming up with founders who have a shared vision of where things are going and a desire to make them happen. So my provocations are a good way of letting th...

What Will Happen In 2025

I've done a lot of these January 1st look forward posts in the 20+ years I've been blogging. I've used many different approaches. I sometimes talk big themes, like I did last year. I sometimes focus on just one thing. And sometimes I just make a bunch of predictions. I am going to do the latter approach today because I feel like it and it's so much fun. 1/ Apple and Google will leverage their existing market power to surpass OpenAI/ChatGPT in consumer AI prompts by the end of 2025. 2/ Waymo w...

My Year End Playlist

Every year I put together a playlist at the end of the year with some of the new music I found and got into. Many of these songs are under the radar which is my favorite kind of music. So I hope you find something new that you like in here.","author_url":"https://soundcloud.com/fredwilson","version":"1.0","provider_name":"SoundCloud","thumbnail_url":"https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/2e6b949d6a44d3628290d7c2350ee700.jpg","type":"rich","thumbnail_height":500,"image":{"base64":"data...

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Leon's

I have always been a big fan of breakfast, lunch and dinner business meetings. There is something about breaking bread over a meeting, or a glass of wine or beer or a cup of coffee. The ideal location is a place where others are doing the same thing so you can bump into friends, colleagues, and others regularly. For years, I would do my breakfast meetings at The Coffee Shop (now closed) in Union Square and my lunch meetings at Taralucci or Punch (now closed). I moved my regular breakfast spot...

Former Lawyers

I have worked with many former lawyers in my career and my experience with them has always been fantastic. The first former lawyer I worked with was Milt Pappas who, along with his partner Bliss McCrum, were my first bosses in venture capital and they taught me so much. Milt told me that he believed that a legal education was a fantastic preparation for the business world. Milt had attended law school but never practiced law. He went right into a trust and estates department at a leading bank...

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My Supplement Stack

For many years, I took a multivitamin every morning and that was it. Then maybe five years ago, during my annual physical, my doctor told me I was "very vitamin B deficient." That led to a month or so of regular injections in my thigh and I've taken Vitamin B12 every day since. Over time, I added Vitamin D3 to my daily routine. A friend on the golf course told me to try Glucosamine for my aching knees and so I added that. My dermatologist told me to add Niacinamide to my daily routine and so ...