Venture Capitalist (Union Square Ventures) and blogger Fred Wilson gave a talk a few days ago at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View. The key point of his talk was about disruption — what companies are doing out there to change the technology space. Nothing Earth-shatteringly new, but interesting insights from a smart guy.
The talk includes his six words to live by on the Internet: Global, social, open, mobile, playful, intelligent — and a bonus seventh one: instantaneous. As an investor in Twitter, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Wilson included this last one.
Google has just posted the video of the talk on YouTube, find it below.
Thanks for the video.
at the 10:55 mark…
I’d say the “One to many” would be play on words more accurate to say “One too many” for the comments around two way communication.
i agree that there are no “earth shattering” insights in the talk. it was more an attempt to lay out a framework for thinking about how to invest in a host of industries that we think are going to get disrupted (or are in the middle of being disrupted).
it’s really just an articulation of our investment strategy. hopefully entrepreneurs, including those that are currently employed at Google, will come talk to us when they raise money for their startups that are working in these sectors.
finally, i’d like to acknowledge that this presentation was “peer produced” by the community at AVC. i could not have done it without them.
Yep, good stuff for sure Fred. Thanks.
Nice of you to share credit, it’s nice to see community and ethics online. Nice talk.
“Peer produced???” What a cop-out for much critiqued presentation.
If that is the case, how about you share the spoils of A VC with the “Peers?”
‘-)
i give all the revenue from AVC to charity
another one of your dumb google biased posts… just give it up will you..
Great talk Fred. You’re getting better at these with each one.
-Jason
PRESENTATION SKILLS NEEDED
Fred needs training in presentation/communication skills – his content is OK, his delivery is not. A few suggestions:
(1) remove the verbal fillers, i.e., the “ums … ahs”
(2) answer the question quickly
(3) reduce the length of the presentation
thanks Shankar. i totally agree with all of these critiques after watching the presentation. there’s nothing better than watching to see how to improve it.
What a classy response to a public and unsympathetic critique. Says it all…
I think the low volume on the mic at first might have thrown you off. It was pretty low but eventually got used to it.
Otherwise, interesting presentation covering a lot of different areas (I decided to write up a health related idea I’ve been mulling over for a couple of years based on your thoughts). I enjoyed the dodge when ask which Google business should be shuttered.
I think our public speaking standards have been further racheted up because of President Obama. First, Cuomo, than Clinton, now Obama. Keeps getting higher and higher.
Enjoy your insights, when I have a chance to review. Friendly IP note at the 4:15 mark: attribution relates to plagiarism but does not cure copyright infringement. You would want to qualify for copyright fair use. Following is snippet from my notes for a talk, where much explanation occurred in my discussion atop the written notes.
It may be helpful to review copyright infringement and plagiarism.
* Plagiarism can be avoided by giving credit to the author.
* One way to avoid copyright infringement is to obtain authorization from the owner/author.
* Another way to avoid copyright infringement is to qualify for Fair Use, regardless whether authorization or credit has been given by or to the owner/author.
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i think what you are saying is i should only is images that have a CC license
good suggestion
thanks
Interesting talk.
I personnally liked best the first part where we got the why Internet is disruptive. A little bit less “the indusries names” that are becoming disruptive areas.
From my memory I will quote the first part “Internet is disruptive because”:
- 1) url : ==> gives knowledge to everyone from people to small companies. Therefore means big organisation (or countries, or powerfull people) do not have anymore this advantage. That is way important.
- 2) Lower cost production : ==> Today a at is perhaopsweb service is likelly to cost 10 or 15 times less than a decade ago. Tis is also so true …. and the trend is still going on with the unification of the PC-web and the Mobile-web.
One funny side effect of this is … we entrepreners almost do not need seed money. The investment will perhaps be so small that or poket money will suffise… Ok a big “dream of the power of the mass that is coming. One big concrete example here is the huge success of the direct developper-to-consumer iphone game made possible with Apple AppStore + an quite easy API.
- 3) The market is too To big for the service it gives. In clear the new comer will make 5 times less turnover … with same marging. And of course less worker in (and a big opportunity to change live of the others).
There must have been others I missed… but anyway I liked this “small course”.
Cheers M. Wilson and viva TechCrunch … a disruptive blog in tech news by the way
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T.
Fred,
Thanks for sharing this presentation, I really enjoyed watching you!
Interesting starting point of taking ‘End-to-end-digital’ for looking for disruptive potential of the internet.
You gave some surprising examples of using games technologies for learning and changing behaviour in Healthcare!
In government, I really liked the local example ‘SeeClickFix’ – ‘government in action’.
Hey Fred your blog needs a facelift, let’s connect.
It interesting that even the guys at Google don’t figure out how to create Youtube videos with the right aspect ratio!
The biggest disruption is for Internet VC’s: the times are over for them as entrepreneurs can start-up without them.
VC’s now need to go funding hardware based businesses: that’s scary for them.