Albert Wenger
33 statements across 4 episodes · 14 bullish · 5 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 11, 2016 by Albert Wenger · said 50 times in 21 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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2023 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2021 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Twilio's Jeff Lawson on What It Takes To Create a Tribe, How To Create Anti-Fragile Organisations Through Decentralised Decision-Making and Why Values Are Nice But Principles Are Better
- 20VC: The Twilio Memo: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on How a $125K Initial Check Became Bessemer's Largest Position, What The Influx of Late-Stage Capital Means For Venture Today & Why The Incumbent Advantage Is Now An Incumbent Disadvantage
- 20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 2 mentions in 1 episode
2018 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Why Most The Value In Crypto Will Accrue in Governance, When Institutional Capital Will Enter The Space and How To Think About Liquidity In Crypto with Joel Monegro, Founding Partner @ Placeholder.VC
- 20VC: Top 3 Considerations When Evaluating Consumer Businesses Today | 700 Meetings, 70 LPs, 2 Years, What It Takes To Raise a First Time Fund| The Power of The Female Network In Action Today with Anu Duggal, Founding Partner @ Female Founders Fund
- 20VC: Scalar Capital's Linda Xjie on Who Will Win The Smart Contract War, The Future of Exchanges: Centralised or Decentralised & The Pros and Cons of Differing Privacy Coins
- 20VC: Why Virtually All Companies Hire The Wrong Way, Why EdTech Is The Most Brutal Market & How To Scale Your Sales Team for Engineering Founders with Mike Sliagadze, Founder & CEO @ Top Hat
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 16 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong on The Rise & Short Term Correction in ICOs, The Regulatory Framework Required For Blockchain To Succeed & How The Rise of Blockchain Disrupts The VC Industry
- 20VC: USV's Andy Weissman on The Future of The VC Industry, Why USV Does Not Vote On Investment Decisions & Why VCs Should Be Invisible
- 20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon on Lessons From Serving On Amazon & Zynga's Board, Why The Best Investors Are Good Listeners and Sceptical Optimists & The Most Important Value Add A VC Can Provide
- 20VC: Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil on How To View Pattern Recognition and Deal With The Anti-Portfolio, The Next Frontier In Developer Focussed Businesses & Why eSports Is Interesting Again
- 20VC: Why Companies Going Bust Is Part Of The Plan, Why Most VCs Are Later Stage Than They Think & Why Venture Capital Is Humbling with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways
- 20VC: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory on What Is Missing In EdTech? What Does The Integration Of AI & Education Look Like & The Core Pillars Of Optimising Memory
- 20VC: Mythbuster: Is Mobile Dying? Is AR/VR Overhyped? Is The Excitement Around Bots Justified with Sean Flynn, Partner @ Shasta Ventures
- 20VC: When To Transition From Growth to Profitability & The KPI's of The On Demand Economy with Frank Mycroft @ Booster Fuels
- 20 VC: David Tisch @ Box Group on The Future of Consumer Mobile, Developing Pattern Recognition and FOMO
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Albert Wenger, oldest first
Jul 11, 2016 positive
Wenger: Universal Basic Income is essential to unlock future economic innovation
“The basic income, which is the idea of everybody getting enough money to be able to cover basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter I believe is what's necessary to make people free economic actors in the labor market, and I think that's essential for innova…”
Jul 11, 2016 positive
Wenger: UBI raises manual labor costs and forces automation of dirty jobs
“And one of the criticisms that people raise is, well, who will do these sort of dirty jobs? And I think the answer to that is it means that the price that has to get paid for somebody to say clean bathrooms will go up. And that's a good thing because when the …”
Jul 11, 2016 negative
Wenger: Smartphone owners subsidize extended compute power for centralized tech platforms
“On mobile, it's a lot less clear, because on mobile, you're downloading these apps that are controlled by the companies, and you're downloading them onto a phone, where nominally you control the But because you don't control the apps, you're really, by buying …”
Jul 11, 2016
Wenger had multiple failed attempts entering VC before joining USV
“I first tried to start a venture capital arm for Telebank, and then Telebank got acquired by E-Trade, and then I started my own incubator with very bad timing at the sort of height of the bubble, just before the bubble burst, and then I tried to start a ventur…”
Jul 11, 2016 positive
Wenger: Speculative tech bubbles benefit society by rapidly funding foundational infrastructure
“These sort of frothiness in the installation phase is good from a social perspective, because it means that A lot of capital is allocated very rapidly to a sector, and then subsequently you can build interesting things on top of that.”
Jul 11, 2016 positive
Wenger: Service automation will shift human work toward knowledge and caretaking
“And now I think we can automate a lot of, not just industrial production, but also a lot of services whether that's shopping services or insurance services or transportation services. We can now automate those and that will free us up to participate more in kn…”
Jul 11, 2016
Jul 11, 2016 bullish
USV backed Clue because smartphones will outscale traditional birth control access
“Invested in a company called Clue, based in Berlin, an app that lets women track their health and their fertility, and said yes because there are more women in the world who will have smartphones than have access to traditional birth control, and there's a hug…”
Jul 11, 2016 neutral
Wenger predicts only a small number of self-driving car companies will survive
“If you think about self-driving cars, how many self-driving car companies will there ultimately be? It's probably not a large number, and so if you're in the installation phase, you know, you have to get very lucky to pick the winner, and then even within pick…”
Jul 11, 2016 positive
Jul 11, 2016 negative
Wenger refuses to use an iPhone due to Apple's centralized gatekeeping
“My primary phone is, is not an Apple phone because I think that the idea that I could have a supercomputer in my pocket that's connected to the entire world through the internet, and in order to install software on it, I really have to go through a single comp…”
Jul 11, 2016 neutral
Wenger: Cultural and intellectual inertia is the biggest barrier to UBI
“I think the biggest challenge to getting to basic income is purely a intellectual and cultural challenge that has to do with Having constructed a system for over a hundred years or so, or several generations that, you know, has a specific perception of how the…”
Jul 13, 2016 positive
Nov 27, 2017 positive
Gordon: USV led edtech discourse years before making edtech investments
“And then Albert Wenger, he created the meme of hacking education, which I'm a fanboy of. And that was probably in oh nine or oh 10. He convened leading thinkers. And interestingly enough, they didn't invest in any learning and Companies for several years after…”
Jan 23, 2023 negative
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Jan 23, 2023 positive
Wenger: Developing nations will leapfrog legacy energy grids like mobile banking
“I think that developing nations can leapfrog. They don't have much of an existing infrastructure that needs, like, If you look in big parts of Africa, they don't have a grit. They can lean right into decentralized energy production. Just like, you know, why do…”
Jan 23, 2023 negative
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Jan 23, 2023 positive
Wenger predicts politicians will get elected on radical climate platforms
“And I believe that climate will be that kind of thing. It'll go from something where politicians feel, oh, I can't really talk about it. There's not enough voters. I'm not going to get elected and so forth. I think it's going to go from that to something where…”
Jan 23, 2023
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Jan 23, 2023 positive
Albert Wenger funds universal basic income trial in Hudson, New York
“And Susan, my wife and I have been long-term advocates for universal basic income. We are funding a universal basic income trial in the city of Hudson in the state of New York. And we've contributed to other universal basic income campaigns and trials.”
Jan 23, 2023 bullish
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Jan 23, 2023 positive
Wenger: Twitter is hard to kill because it's a network of networks
“I still believe that there's an opportunity today, even after all the damage that has been done both by the prior regime and by the current one, I still think it's not too late because Twitter is Hard to kill. It's a network of networks.”