# Fred Wilson — Researcher persona

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- Persona: Fred Wilson
- Summary: Durable Researcher corpus for Fred Wilson: his A VC blog (the avc.com daily archive 2003-2024 and his current blog at avc.xyz on Paragraph), the X/Twitter archive, and interviews and talks, with entity-owned source snapshots and indexes.
- Page: https://researcher.now/e/fred-wilson
- JSON: https://researcher.now/public/entities/by-slug/fred-wilson?include=all
- Sources: 20863
- About report version: v2

## About

Wilson’s central pattern is a long-running defense of user and creator sovereignty inside networked technology: he is drawn to tools that let people publish, transact, learn, coordinate, and own without being trapped by institutions that later extract from them. That pattern explains his early enthusiasm for blogs, Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy, Kickstarter, Coinbase, NFTs, DAOs, open finance, open data, mesh networks, and computer-science education; it also explains why he keeps returning to public writing, governance, climate, regulation, and NYC civic infrastructure rather than treating venture capital as only deal selection. His worldview is not “technology fixes everything,” but “networks plus agency can reorganize power if the incentives, interfaces, and institutions are designed well.” [4a1f8e05-6696-4a77-88f8-5ba50d853502, 617f445b-0dac-42f1-8759-9c3af75fd555, 45dd795c-c94c-402e-b2b2-9f0f09ace432, d617ce81-c5f1-4b10-bc32-4e81bba437a5, 9bf8a6c3-d5d5-41d2-8412-61039f701577]

## Recurring interests and themes

- **Digital self-sovereignty:** Wilson repeatedly argues that people should own their domains, archives, identities, data, and social graph rather than let platforms rent those assets back to them; his “own your own domain” argument treats Medium, Facebook, LinkedIn, and HuffPost as convenience layers that can later turn against creators’ interests. [d617ce81-c5f1-4b10-bc32-4e81bba437a5]
- **Networks over tools:** He sees software as a container for human association, not the source of durable value; when AVC’s commenting/community layer changed, he argued the community could continue elsewhere because the people, not the software, were the community. [15c1c203-8798-45c5-a4dd-49e36a9d6861]
- **Open protocols as anti-monopoly architecture:** His critique of big internet platforms is less “break them up” than “open them up”: make social, search, app stores, identity, and commerce more protocol-like so competing clients and services can interoperate on shared infrastructure. [9fb1eb41-5cc1-413c-81ee-8e87dab43b51]
- **Crypto as ownership and data architecture:** He frames blockchains as shared databases and open data layers that can support portability, token-aligned incentives, decentralized identity, open finance, and eventually open data—not merely as speculative assets. [45dd795c-c94c-402e-b2b2-9f0f09ace432, 712e0251-03ad-4577-accd-f8cd83c89b91]
- **Public writing as thinking infrastructure:** Blogging began for him as a daily practice to share ideas and attract founders, then became a mechanism for conviction-building, feedback, community, and institutional memory across USV. [617f445b-0dac-42f1-8759-9c3af75fd555, 4a1f8e05-6696-4a77-88f8-5ba50d853502]
- **NYC as civic-tech operating system:** Wilson repeatedly links startups, tech jobs, CS education, transit, neighborhoods, and economic development; his support for CS4All and tech jobs in outer boroughs shows he treats the ecosystem as civic infrastructure, not just a deal market. [5d0bf3df-063a-4f15-af18-3a664edba39d, 62285007-fab8-49ac-b316-d8bc33005f49]
- **Creators and cultural markets:** He is interested in marketplaces and funding mechanisms that let creators, artists, musicians, filmmakers, and niche product builders reach audiences directly—Kickstarter projects, SoundCloud’s creator focus, NFTs, and fractional cultural assets all fit this pattern. [950984fc-a312-4df2-90fb-a7ce77e5f250, 9d9f468d-e2c4-4e35-817a-7b90f17cb8b6, 54f884a2-4f39-4a10-b484-0b971415a917]
- **Climate as deployment problem:** His climate interest emphasizes both adaptation and mitigation, scaling existing technologies, carbon pricing, building mandates, rooftop solar, resilient grids, EV infrastructure, and personal behavior change. [92beb8e5-f7ba-4f40-959c-4cb85a23ea93, e0e42c6b-35b4-46df-9ed5-5d07c78cb92e, a96883dd-f73d-469b-897f-df5a4d10c5fe]

## Beliefs and principles

- **Own the point of publication:** Wilson believes serious creators should publish from assets they control because platforms optimize for themselves; owning the domain preserves identity, archive, distribution optionality, and brand independence. [d617ce81-c5f1-4b10-bc32-4e81bba437a5]
- **Venture capital should serve entrepreneurs:** He defines “real venture capital” as early-stage support for founders over five-to-ten-year company-building arcs, with the entrepreneur as the VC’s customer rather than the investor as the protagonist. [a68ec64a-013d-4a03-84a3-cf58b9119f6e]
- **Thesis beats FOMO:** USV’s practice of articulating and revising theses gives Wilson a way to make faster decisions without becoming purely reactive; he argues that knowing what you are looking for matters more than chasing every hot round. [8d21fbc2-8574-4003-a1de-ee15a9ff8f65]
- **Ridicule can be signal:** Wilson’s venture style values non-consensus ideas that sound stupid before they sound obvious; he has said return and ridicule are correlated because consensus opportunities are usually already priced. [bbbaf42d-916f-4e75-b30c-6f7b406f8450]
- **Look at the work:** His talent evaluation heuristic is concrete and output-based—artists by the art, developers by the product, repeat performers by repeated work—rather than charisma, résumé, or narrative alone. [d587c257-382e-423a-a7a9-9889ba78274b]
- **Small, flat partnerships are structurally better for early-stage investing:** He argues that controversial, “out there” seed bets require trust among a small number of partners, long-term alignment, and low bureaucracy. [ba4b3727-3ce6-4b34-8b1d-b12ebeafa6b7]
- **Governance should start early:** He recommends that founders create a three-person board early—founder plus two respected independents who are not friends or family—to create feedback, accountability, and decision discipline before investor control dynamics dominate. [23c5c60f-bcb6-45d8-a20a-54fe3da52c16]
- **Markets and government both matter:** Wilson is not a market absolutist; he has argued that markets cannot solve everything and that a strong economy requires both a strong business sector and a strong government, especially in climate and public infrastructure contexts. [6d97f726-bb68-4beb-ae3d-2b61dae30ef1, 92beb8e5-f7ba-4f40-959c-4cb85a23ea93]

## Future narratives and predictions

- **Web3 is the “own” phase of the web:** Wilson maps internet history from read to write to own, arguing that blockchain networks add native digital ownership to the web after earlier phases enabled publishing and participation. [94d217dd-dc78-4b01-ab2d-6006fe2ec8f0]
- **Open finance precedes open data:** He expects crypto’s financial uses—assets, custody, exchanges, stablecoins, self-custody, and DeFi-like behavior—to mature before broader web3 data portability becomes mainstream. [712e0251-03ad-4577-accd-f8cd83c89b91]
- **Data ownership will weaken big-tech moats:** He predicts a shift in which individuals control their own data and applications interoperate through open protocols, undermining today’s platform defensibility based on captive user data and network effects. [45dd795c-c94c-402e-b2b2-9f0f09ace432]
- **Twitter should have become a protocol:** Wilson’s retrospective future narrative is that Twitter, if built after Bitcoin rather than before it, could have been an open protocol with shared data and token-aligned economics instead of a centralized advertising company. [ed461468-2936-420c-8cbd-9bba4f5ae925]
- **Blockchain apps arrive after infrastructure:** He compares blockchain to the early internet: first bandwidth, servers, compute, storage, identity, and protocols; only later do truly native applications become obvious to mainstream users. [40a3c2ab-8e78-4097-92a8-f568f3f13d68]
- **AI may automate parts of venture capital:** In later-career reflections, Wilson is actively building AI agents and asking whether AI will make pieces of VC obsolete, while still preserving a role for human relationships and judgment. [4a1f8e05-6696-4a77-88f8-5ba50d853502, 761d853e-c188-46d8-bba8-9d6355d976ed]
- **Climate progress is possible but politically constrained:** He believes society already has many tools needed for adaptation and mitigation, but deployment depends on collective will, regulation, mandates, capital, and behavior change rather than invention alone. [a68ec64a-013d-4a03-84a3-cf58b9119f6e]
- **Remote and flexible work will reshape cities and companies:** He sees the pandemic as accelerating a “work-life balance revolution” in which work, healthcare, and education renegotiate what must happen in person versus virtually. [ab23c27c-3a17-4bf6-88fa-f19a63e38cea]

## Recurring questions

- **Who owns the user relationship?** Wilson keeps returning to whether creators, users, developers, or platforms control identity, data, social graphs, archives, and monetization; this appears in his writing on domains, Twitter, Farcaster, blockchain, app stores, and open protocols. [d617ce81-c5f1-4b10-bc32-4e81bba437a5, 5dc20a73-79c7-47ed-a442-ac12f05d428b]
- **When does a network become infrastructure?** He asks when a product is not just an app but a shared rail others can build on—Twitter as a potential protocol, Uniswap as protocol-like, blockchain as shared data layer, mesh networking as connectivity infrastructure. [d587c257-382e-423a-a7a9-9889ba78274b, 45dd795c-c94c-402e-b2b2-9f0f09ace432]
- **What behavior is technology really unlocking?** Wilson’s Twitter, Tumblr, Coinbase, Kickstarter, and NFT interest all revolve around new behaviors—short-form publishing, lightweight creation, self-custody, crowdfunding, scarce digital media—not technology novelty by itself. [617f445b-0dac-42f1-8759-9c3af75fd555, 9d9f468d-e2c4-4e35-817a-7b90f17cb8b6]
- **How much governance is enough?** He repeatedly probes the boundary between autonomy and accountability: founder-controlled companies need boards, crypto needs sensible regulation, influential Twitter accounts may need fact-checking, and climate markets need mandates. [23c5c60f-bcb6-45d8-a20a-54fe3da52c16, 9bf8a6c3-d5d5-41d2-8412-61039f701577, 92beb8e5-f7ba-4f40-959c-4cb85a23ea93]
- **What is the real customer and market?** His reflections on misses such as Airbnb and Twitter payments center on misreading the customer, use case, or developer market rather than merely missing a company. [92b0160c-12ec-47c0-92e4-02a5fe748343]
- **How should investors act in cycles?** Wilson asks how to keep conviction through crashes, bubbles, and ridicule while still respecting capital discipline, pacing, secondaries, early liquidity, and market overcorrection. [10c9ca22-b6bb-4b3e-9a99-81fdd4e54120, b4b3b267-c017-43e2-8db3-0a4b704823a4]
- **How does opportunity become broadly distributed?** His work on CS education, female founders, diversity surveys, tech jobs in all NYC neighborhoods, and fractional ownership asks how startup wealth and skill pathways reach beyond existing insiders. [41671fb9-24f1-4a2d-9b96-4f8d3f425504, b9be7d2f-5095-4f6f-8fc0-6f885ee3a234, 7f572c18-c9cd-42eb-a455-0ea35cb5f5d0]
- **What must be used personally to be understood?** He often treats hands-on use—blogging, Twitter, Bitcoin white paper, Coinbase, NFTs, self-custody wallets, AI agents, EVs, solar dashboards—as a prerequisite for investor understanding. [d7497d02-f403-4181-a579-d63828af187e, 4a1f8e05-6696-4a77-88f8-5ba50d853502]

## Tensions and contradictions

- **Decentralization advocate, governance pragmatist:** Wilson wants open protocols and user-controlled systems, yet he also supports fact-checking influential social accounts, privacy regulation, carbon taxes, and institutional engagement with policymakers. [9bf8a6c3-d5d5-41d2-8412-61039f701577, 92beb8e5-f7ba-4f40-959c-4cb85a23ea93, 6cf54fc3-b52a-49d5-a29a-117f02fd2550]
- **Platform investor turned platform critic:** He helped finance Twitter’s spinout and recognized its mass-publishing power early, but later argued Twitter was too important to be owned by one person and should be decentralized as a protocol. [d587c257-382e-423a-a7a9-9889ba78274b, 76ba8a2e-ea87-4595-9b0a-e829b186f2ea]
- **Public community builder, occasional gatekeeper:** AVC is built on open conversation, but the burden of comments, platform migrations, and community management reveals the practical difficulty of sustaining open discourse at scale. [c4b1f5bf-7759-4259-9f19-2cc41af21ee5, 609f0408-6a2c-433d-b047-6600a7c2f0d3]
- **Conviction investor, mistake chronicler:** Wilson prizes non-consensus conviction, but his own writing emphasizes missed investments, bad calls, losses, bubbles, and learning from mistakes rather than presenting venture judgment as heroic certainty. [92b0160c-12ec-47c0-92e4-02a5fe748343, a85d796d-0caa-42d6-ad54-01f02435679a]
- **Crypto optimist, crypto risk realist:** He is long crypto and continues to fund it, while warning about scams, hacks, forks, valuation bubbles, infrastructure limits, congestion, visible web3 plumbing, and wallet fragmentation. [8e2b48d4-13b2-4e6f-b7f9-952ff2a398de, 40a3c2ab-8e78-4097-92a8-f568f3f13d68, 36218832-adcc-4da9-b72c-72e92f7ec08c, 10c9ca22-b6bb-4b3e-9a99-81fdd4e54120]
- **Less hustle, more conviction—yet still hands-on:** His late-career mantra is “less hustle more conviction,” but he also says investors are done when they stop understanding new markets and that understanding requires hands-on use. [d7497d02-f403-4181-a579-d63828af187e]
- **Founder independence versus board accountability:** He says the VC’s job is to support entrepreneurs and sometimes back the founder’s chosen path even when he disagrees, yet he also urges structured boards, independent directors, and accountability from the start. [3207535a-1d91-49c2-89d0-4da745e87226, 23c5c60f-bcb6-45d8-a20a-54fe3da52c16]
- **Openness versus convenience:** He invests in and advocates privacy and decentralization, but acknowledges many users choose convenience over privacy, explaining why services like DuckDuckGo remain smaller than dominant platforms. [9bf8a6c3-d5d5-41d2-8412-61039f701577]

## Unifying threads

- **Agency at the edge:** The deepest unifier is a belief that the internet should empower users, creators, founders, students, developers, and communities at the edge rather than concentrate control at the center. [92b0160c-12ec-47c0-92e4-02a5fe748343]
- **Networks as the venture primitive:** Whether consumer, enterprise, crypto, marketplace, education, climate, or media, Wilson tends to ask where network effects, shared data, shared incentives, or user-to-user value creation create defensible new institutions. [fe0f6d98-bef1-4327-9e8e-a734986ee875]
- **Public learning as credibility:** His blogging, USV analyst writing, open-sourced D&I survey questions, and willingness to discuss misses show a belief that judgment improves when exposed to public critique and reusable by others. [81761351-8727-4e7b-b36c-c07875bc167f, 7f572c18-c9cd-42eb-a455-0ea35cb5f5d0]
- **Cycles, not straight lines:** Wilson reads technology through repeated cycles of installation, bubble, crash, deployment, infrastructure, applications, and institutional catch-up; this lets him stay interested in ridiculed sectors without denying volatility. [c67a04ef-7df4-4db9-8620-57e7df7e5e59, c938df6b-7456-463f-8131-c8f6f150366a]
- **Interfaces unlock revolutions:** He often believes the breakthrough happens when a powerful but hard technology becomes usable—Twitter made blogging SMS-simple, mobile made ticketing and payments ambient, wallets will hide web3 plumbing, and good packaging will unlock blockchain apps. [617f445b-0dac-42f1-8759-9c3af75fd555, 4ea4ad0f-2ba9-4dbb-a1a7-88c34c0d262d, 36218832-adcc-4da9-b72c-72e92f7ec08c]
- **Personal practice mirrors investment thesis:** Daily writing, meditation, fitness, public transit use, EVs, rooftop solar, crypto wallets, NFTs, and AI agents are not side anecdotes; they are Wilson’s way of learning markets by inhabiting user behavior. [058ac53d-4e9f-4aa3-9a7f-fe000a04603f, c520cd6a-47f3-4a16-a0fd-3f5b18966589, e0e42c6b-35b4-46df-9ed5-5d07c78cb92e, 4a1f8e05-6696-4a77-88f8-5ba50d853502]
- **Optimism disciplined by scars:** The dotcom crash, Flatiron’s wind-down, missed Airbnb, crypto drawdowns, and individual investment losses give Wilson a bias toward possibility without naïveté about bubbles, timing, capital structure, or human error. [4a1f8e05-6696-4a77-88f8-5ba50d853502, 92b0160c-12ec-47c0-92e4-02a5fe748343]
- **Civic technology, not just startup technology:** His work consistently extends from private startups to public goods—CS education, climate action, job access, diversity practices, public transit, and open regulation—because he sees technology ecosystems as civic systems that need maintenance. [62285007-fab8-49ac-b316-d8bc33005f49, 92beb8e5-f7ba-4f40-959c-4cb85a23ea93, d7db7553-2641-4af0-87e6-196444f54edb]

## Sources

- #TOA Interview with Fred Wilson & Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_nIgDeOX5Y
- Internet History Podcast | Fred Wilson Of Union Square Ventures transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO15X79Pbkc
- Fireside chat between Fred Wilson and Olaf Carlson-Wee - Token Summit IV NYC May 2019 transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDBwR-z_6Gw
- Fireside Chat with Fred Wilson moderated by Maria Gotsch - FinTech Innovation Lab New York 2020 transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ3zgbE3OPA
- Fireside chat with Fred Wilson, Managing Partner, USV at Spero Ventures Founder Summit 2020 transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N04g2kZY3iU
- Fred Wilson and Albert Wenger Interviewed by Erin Griffith | Upfront Summit 2020 transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dx_z_t8mrs
- Token Summit I - Final Fireside Chat with Fred Wilson and William Mougayar transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsBfVHEsAbU
- Fred Wilson on 40 Years in Venture — and Why USV Is Automating Itself transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDyKQXjVbU
- Fred Wilson & Brad Burnham (Union Square Ventures) transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tEx5eVX_B0
- Bothsides TV Episode 9 with Fred Wilson, Partner at Union Square Ventures transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiyT39ZQt2U
- December NY Enterprise Technology Meetup - Keynote by Fred Wilson transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ZpbESDkAc
- Bloomberg Cornell Tech Series: A Conversation with Ron Conway and Fred Wilson transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2QNWIVNsgA
- Legendary VC Fred Wilson hates corporate VCs, talks about dumb money and blockchain transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5pehFcT8_Y
- Fred Wilson, USV  // Data Driven NYC #18 // Sep 2013 (interviewed by Matt Turck) transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se6JCAtXhaU
- Fred Wilson fireside chat at Seedcamp Week Berlin transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWjfLXz8CW8
- Web 2.0 Expo NY 2011, A Conversation with Fred Wilson and Carlota Perez transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmesHdCcXn4
- Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures on Getting into VC | Upfront Summit 2016 transcript · youtube.com — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUV6c2-r6uI
- I took a walk around the Union Square neighborhood a couple of Fridays ago with our new partner @mignano and we recorded it so everyone can… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/2049492770331467867
- @getcode Pls connect my Twitter account CodeAccount:6Cf4VzvXs2G25RqjXe4XGmpPKiet8Ru2kZ19fWS1YWPg:F7i7uZqVrNXu6LjkjriE1w:5gcq7Jp1psQguvpBXgh… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1834573470170050969
- /fin · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1792972284669407635
- I wrote a post, the second in a series about moving my Internet presence onchain, explaining my move from Twitter to Farcaster today https:… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1792972282605801983
- Hi Everyone. This Twitter account has been dormant, except when it got hacked last year, for the last eighteen months. I've been sharing my… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1792972279934267639
- @jimhirshfield .xyz is the new .com. web3 is the new web2. You gotta leave the old and get with the new if you want to stay ahead in this b… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1756010051624448395
- / fin · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1755927445486686524
- I am sorry that my mistakes exposed all of you to this scam. I am hoping that by detailing what happened others can avoid being duped as I … · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1755927444303839455
- Hi Everyone. Here is a detailed explanation of the account takeover hack that happened on this account this week. https://t.co/XPphwGjblQ · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1755927442865229987
- /fin · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1755714775135232008
- Getting hacked sucks. It's now happened to me a few times and each time I learn something and get a bit smarter. But it still sucks. · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1755714774002749511
- I want to thank everyone who helped notify Twitter/X on Tuesday and get them to shut down this account. I specifically want to thank @srira… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1755714772815827287
- I am going to write a full post-mortem in what happened so that others can learn from my mistakes. I plan to do that tomorrow and will post… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1755714771595247830
- Hi Everyone. As many of you know, this account was taken over by a hacker on Tuesday and they ran an NFT scam on it. I feel terrible about … · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1755714770030711015
- RT @sama: very hard to do something novel for the first time; orders of magnitude easier to copy something that is known to be possible.… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1701313901311185381
- @EricMRoseman I like Lime and Dott. · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1697919391847887182
- @aweissman @MarieDOLLE The Icarus effect · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1683576296335458306
- @pi_stachioo @joshhart Yeah. We would love to take you out to Quaker anytime Josh · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1681391492277862410
- @TaliaGold @aleximm Congratulations!!! · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1607445746906988545
- RT @sid_coelho: If you ever sent an unsupported ERC20 token to @Coinbase and had it disappear into the *ahem* ether, you can now easily rec… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1603720008227590148
- RT @emilyjwils: ISO someone at Google who can help me fix a broken list link. It's a great list (and it's public), help me! 🙏🙏🙏 · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1603145411656548355
- @seth https://t.co/TXUzvTlKmG · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1597075932736806912
- @Jason These two moves will fix Twitter https://t.co/bTZQxmGf0a. Everything else is a waste of time until you do them. · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1587444630211149826
- @howardlindzon the wizard of oz · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1587217290218594305
- @semil The Charlie is what you are looking for https://t.co/3Lf5mTHkuH · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1586631881579270144
- @q2design @mpkoz Just bought #65 https://t.co/QKpavGz3cZ. (cc @seth ) · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1586039295692898306
- @aweissman @whitneymcn happy cover friday: cage the elephant covering the talking heads https://t.co/G5HdUvsxse · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1585940477244604417
- @whitneymcn @aweissman Throwback Thursday: This is what rock shows were like when I first started going to them in the mid 70s https://t.co… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1585586667292868609
- @reboundernyc you are getting cynical and that won't do · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1585583808337829889
- @aweissman @whitneymcn i dig this https://t.co/Je1W2ZOvkU · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1585219687725428736
- @aweissman @whitneymcn good morning. new arctic monkeys. i dig the groovy guitar on this one https://t.co/iko67vE2AZ · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1584497726263242752
- @aweissman @TaliaGold You've got L' Industrie and Finni within 2 1/2 blocks of each other in Williamsburg. I think a road trip (or ferry tr… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1584274683725500416
- @TaliaGold Well unfortunately the baked ziti collab is over so you will have to settle for the awesome white mushroom, the spicy vodka, or … · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1584237607151542272
- @TaliaGold The Upside Pizza collab with Raffettos on a baked ziti pizza needs to be on your list https://t.co/6FFXlXC3As · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1584234903838736387
- @davemorgannyc @CitiBikeNYC @Simulmedia Not blurry. But oddly sideways · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1583426965209772037
- @whitneymcn @aweissman In celebration of the drop of a new Arctic Monkeys record, here's one of the greatest covers on one of the world's b… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1583421085684355072
- @davemorgannyc @usv That's the blurriest selfie I've ever seen Dave · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1583152086522691584
- @aweissman @whitneymcn Throwback Thursday: Tuesday's Chuck Berry tweet got me watching the Stones 1971 Marquee Club videos and this version… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1583038590485168128
- @usv @aweissman @jamiew @fabianstelzer Standing room only ! · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1582762547358625792
- @aweissman @whitneymcn i dig this one https://t.co/exM1UJuHz0 · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1582682023423983616
- @nickgrossman @brian_armstrong @usv thanks Nick. I updated my blog posts on avc and https://t.co/yn30zvbi5m with the link to your github re… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1582679389267202050
- @aweissman @whitneymcn here's something from the best chuck berry cover band https://t.co/DGh1N1xLNo · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1582320368210964480
- @aweissman @whitneymcn good morning. i saw these two guys playing a block party in Chelsea yesterday. they are so good https://t.co/i7fLLZe… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1581947894050918400
- @TaliaGold @jeremyl so may great lessons in that post · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1581027479300415489
- @ncsh @aweissman @blakeir I'm digging Hobbs' Incomplete Control #18 on the right and the Empire State Building down the middle and Andy lau… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1580651872095916032
- @whitneymcn @aweissman for throwback thursdays i am going with some T Rex https://t.co/jqw49wFLU9 · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1580501232270966785
- @whitneymcn @pkafka @WillOremus @matt_levine Yeah. New guy sleeps in. Like I said, hard to find folks who can do it right · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1580374586238984192
- @pkafka @WillOremus @matt_levine Mostly replies. · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1580371528704675841
- @matt_levine The hard part is finding someone who can write in your voice. · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1580365444958986241
- @whitneymcn @aweissman i dig the horns on this track https://t.co/bKXaklV6Ft · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1580144005907894272
- @aweissman @whitneymcn it is also Daryl Hall's birthday, who along with John Oates made some of the most memorable pop of the 80s. here the… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1579833572680421380
- @whitneymcn @aweissman i heard this epic 10 min James Brown funk jam on WBGO yesterday. the wind instruments are incredible https://t.co/YZ… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1579459634053935106
- @ROCCOmeta01 @FAKERARES_XCP @MemeConscious Srs 21, Card 14 https://t.co/JvVcbMXTI7 · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1578380257660395521
- @aweissman @whitneymcn happy cover friday: arctic monkeys covering elvis costello https://t.co/kky7oYIRmt · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1578334286658252800
- @whitneymcn @aweissman throwback thursday: Give Up The Funk https://t.co/MHhLIya567 · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1577976999905312768
- @srewats @vgr it is my twitter profile picture and has always been https://t.co/13rJWkfFtY · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1577974571688493058
- @aweissman @whitneymcn xxkatusjinsux https://t.co/sfyFKGgjKb · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1577613747178323969
- @whitneymcn @aweissman It's not yet 6am and I'm on the Manhattan Bridge heading east so I'm going with this one today https://t.co/mhkgp52l… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1577234846635950080
- @whitneymcn @aweissman new week. new Arctic Monkeys https://t.co/98LMigiFJO · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1576876365550260227
- @aweissman @whitneymcn sticky fingers covers! here's Jerry doing Moonlight Mile https://t.co/N6tUGxq9sT · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1575804164063473665
- @whitneymcn I learned that trick from Carlota Perez · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1575608333104738305
- @whitneymcn I do that most days · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1575608086609289217
- @ronberger14 @phkeane Can you add a betting aspect that allows for doubling and tripling the holes please? · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1575552253544771584
- @phkeane Your tweet is a home run · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1575499229036171269
- @phkeane For those of us born in 61, that is also not true · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1575497850741350402
- @phkeane Unless you are 61 years old, which I am right now · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1575495891368415235
- @whitneymcn @aweissman new phoenix with ezra koenig https://t.co/jgTu88OhcJ · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1575423747821035521
- @falicon Bring back Funding Friday for old times sake ??? · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1575291348659445761
- @thebergershop Think about the possibilities. Freshman statistics using all of his at bats as case studies. · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1575288532075270145
- @cburniske Buying Through A Bear. Great title for book two Chris · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1575077958276239360
- @aweissman @whitneymcn Picture Me Rollin' https://t.co/TRA5Ab4asz · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1575064983893053443
- @aweissman @whitneymcn when morning comes, yellow days https://t.co/Nha3xeG28p · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1574714421942722561
- @cburniske Great point. But I like writing good morning out in full and will always do that. And I love saying it out loud in full · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1574372854803714049
- @albertwenger @usv I totally agree. The book recommendations were amazing. I've got a lifetime of reading to do now! · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1573697669880496131
- @whitneymcn @aweissman happy cover friday. will sheff covering john cale https://t.co/x1DXbKOjEY · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1573259467302797312
- @whitneymcn @aweissman Morning: Fontaines D.C. https://t.co/3KCU5UVEOQ · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1572892414213496833
- @aweissman @whitneymcn she's got quite a voice https://t.co/QlRVxyvilq · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1572533610837848065
- @aweissman @whitneymcn youth sector https://t.co/LhiqiNnz0t · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1572208822760132610
- @aweissman Greatest is hard to say. Too many great ones. But top 100 for sure. Maybe top 25 · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1572196255501275136
- RT @albertwenger: Reminder applications for the @usv analyst program are due today at 5pm Eastern time · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1571889636162535424
- @ceonyc it's mostly gonna be all downhill after starting with jake · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1571553007451643904
- @whitneymcn @aweissman Rebounder covering Peter Bjorn and John https://t.co/yG954ocksP · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1570737372182228992
- I just awoke to the news that The Merge was completed successfully a few hours ago. Congratulations and thanks to everyone in the ETH commu… · x.com — https://x.com/fredwilson/status/1570379178528362496

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