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Fred Wilson

Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York; has blogged daily at AVC since 2003.

14 books on the record · 12 Nov 2014 – 30 Aug 2021 · @fredwilson

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

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First Friends by Gary Ginsberg

If you enjoy history books and/or are a student of the US Presidency, you should grab this book and give it a read.

on avc.com · 6 Jul 2021

liked it

Startup CXO by Matt Blumberg

It is the kind of book you will keep by your desk and pull out from time to time to figure out how to approach an issue or to help one of your senior leaders figure out how to do that.

on avc.com · 9 Jun 2021

liked it

The New Builders by Seth Levine and Elizabeth MacBride

My friend Seth Levine and Elizabeth MacBride have written an important book about the changing face of entrepreneurship in the US.

on avc.com · 4 May 2021

loved it

Enemy Of All Mankind by Steven Johnson

is both a great story and also an object lesson in how single event can have a compounding effect on global politics and economics

on avc.com · 16 Jun 2020

liked it

Grit by Angela Duckworth

Her book Grit is about the power of perseverance.

on avc.com · 15 May 2017

recommends it

Whiplash by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe

I don’t do this very often, but I am going to break a rule and recommend a book that I just bought and have not yet read.

on avc.com · 5 Dec 2016

liked it

The Business Blockchain by William Mougayar

the book makes a complex subject, blockchain technology, accessible for the non-technical

on avc.com · 2 May 2016

liked it

The Prize by Dale Russakoff

I’m almost done with the book and I’m very glad she suggested it to me.

on avc.com · 13 Oct 2015

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.