Founders

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

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

How did you first hear about Bitcoin?

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

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VwM2Azx8D4 rikki seems like a great person if that's him

Fred with your experience as an investor in network-related technologies, what do you think is the delta between something new emerging and something becoming investible. How do you think emergence of social media has skewed that dynamic. Cc @dwr.eth