Welcome to @fredwilson.eth, co-founder of Union Square Ventures.

He’s kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions. :)

I bumped into my friend Rikki Tahta walking down a street in NYC's garment district in early 2011. I asked him what he was working on. He said "a bitcoin startup" and I said "a what coin startup?"  I had not heard of Bitcoin. He said "you must read Satoshi's whitepaper." So I went back to my office and read it.

How did you first hear about Bitcoin?

https://avc.com/2011/11/bitcoin

thanks everyone. that was fun. i hope you enjoyed it.

In Dec 2022 you published a blog post called “Sign Everything” - about how crypto and AI can be two sides of the same coin - has your view changed since then or become stronger? Anything to add to this thesis?

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

i continue to believe very strongly in this. web3 needs AI to make it more useful. and AI needs web3 so we can trust it.

In Dec 2022 you published a blog post called “Sign Everything” - about how crypto and AI can be two sides of the same coin - has your view changed since then or become stronger? Anything to add to this thesis?

https://avc.com/2022/12/sign-everything/

building /bracket | hosting /greatbooks + /gray | ex-BCG, ex-PHD | poli + phil + econ

What do you think is crypto’s next big act?

I used to think that you needed to know how you would get out of an investment when you made it. Now I don't bother to think about that.

what's something that was true for venture 10 years ago that is no longer true today?

blogging was such a gift because it combined three very important things in one; 1/ writing helped me think more clearly, 2/ built a following for me among founders, 3/ made me use the emerging tools. i would try to find something that gets your hands on emerging tech, helps you think, and builds community

Hey @fredwilson.eth - if you were starting USV today what would you do as an experiment in the same vein as blogging every day?

since no one's asked it: if you could invest in one (or more) companies today, what would you invest in?

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a consumer app that billions of people around the world will use every day

if you were starting a company in this space today, what would you be most excited to work on?

cma.xyz. Founder /paragraph, previously at Google and Coinbase

treat it like brushing your teeth or taking a shower. don't start your day without doing it

You've been blogging consistently for a very long time. Do you have any advice for creators that want to make blogging & writing a lasting habit?

co-founder at fairmint.com.
If you're a FF (Farcaster Founder) raising funds, stop right here and checkout fairmint.com. Or DC me :)

i have avoided this sector and will continue to do so. i don't understand politics. it mostly upsets me.

Hi @fredwilson.eth, it seems (at least IMHO) that politics is a field that truly needs to be disrupted right now. Have you ever invested in that field (besides donating to candidates)? Do you think it's a field that can be disrupted (at least without violence)?

@operator & /operator | 💭 about BCI, bioinformatics, search, chaos, decentralized AI | join me in /entropybender /llm

less is more with protocols too. simple protocols that work will endure. like railroads or highways or canals. they are the infrastructure for the knowledge age

what do you think it will take for protocols to endure the test of time? companies don't last very long, how can we get protocols to last 100s, 100s of years?

Exploring what's next / Founder @launch / YC alum

i have seen @barmstrong make many hard decisions over the years that were not going to be popular. and the calmness he has about himself in those moments is a sight to behold.

What's your favorite memory from the past decade of working with @barmstrong as a founder?

Building physical commerce to give artists and writers other ways to monetize their work /clickcast /cpg

something entirely new that we have never seen before.

What are you most excited to see built on top of the FC rails?

What have you learned about yourself through your writing practice that you would go back and tell yourself before you started?

c/acc - 🏴‍☠️🌊 Bring me that Horizon 🍹
Gold League of Legends player

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i don't make coffee. i go out and get coffee. it is a morning ritual for me that i don't feel right without. i have favorites in all parts of NYC and all parts of the world that I go to regularly. @dwr knows my favorite in Venice Beach because I see him there regularly.

@fredwilson.eth What's your favorite a) coffee place and b) coffee beans to make coffee with?

you need to answer the question "why me?"

As a VC, what does selling to LPs and to founders have in common?

(summer of) protocol {support | guild | fellowship} ☀️


How’s Ethereum doing relative to 2018 😄?

Dev at ethOS, a mobile OS that is crypto native- nf.td/markus, Technology brother

What would you like to see on ethOS?

(Thank you for buying one :))

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Experimental 2D/3D artist. Data science Pythonista. He/They. Nerdy++; (Nearly) all work CC-BY/CC0/FOSS

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What advice do you have for someone who wants to develop or transition to a mission-driven career that directly addresses major global problems like climate change?