Fred Wilson

“I think more recently, I was very impressed with what Fred Wilson had done without the existing platform or assets that, that, you know, some of the, you know, longstanding West Coast firms have had.”

“Fred Wilson, I think, and you know, he's the icon in New York.”

“It took us about 80 meetings and a heck of a lot of air travel to get that done, but we finally got the fund done in the early part of, I guess, 2004”

“Fred Wilson, probably five funds with Unisquare Ventures, probably all under two hundred million, so he's invested probably less than a billion dollars and has returned probably way, way more than that in a very consistent fashion.”

“Brad Feld and Fred Wilson have been sort of mentors and, you know, are small investors in our fund”

“In 99, 2000, I'm sure Fred Wilson and Brad Feld and a lot of the VCs wish they understood the stock markets because they would have sold, because they could have sold. Instead, they wrote everything to zero in 2001.”

“If you like the CEO, and you like the opportunity, and you like the market, and every single thing about this says yes, and the only reason you say no in a private, this is private stuff, not public check, and the only reason you say no is the price, well, you…”

“I mean, I don't know exactly what Fred's been talking about consumer downturn, but I don't, I think there's plenty of space. So, I think most people didn't think there was space for Snapchat a couple years ago. Now, now people do. You used to look at Musical.l…”

“Fred Wilson is kind of the crown prince of New York venture capital and a great blogger. He was extremely helpful in the early days of Zynga, even though he was mostly dialed in. He's just such a crisp, sharp thinker.”

“You can either be a very thesis-driven venture capitalist like Fred, or you can be a very founder-driven venture capitalist like Bijan, and I think, you know, what fits better for my personality and the way I see things is being a founder-driven venture capita…”

“They never asked for my resume. They never checked any references. They just wanted to see my web presence. So I showed them my blog at the time because this is pre-Twitter or pre-Tumblr or anything like that. They brought me in for a 40 minute interview and t…”

“One that's kicking around in my head recently is, you know, back in September, Fred Wilson, in his blog, he quoted Brad Feld, who said that, you make money in winners, but you make friends in losers. And, you know, it's absolutely so true, and it's been very t…”

“There's a really great Fred Wilson quote where he talks about VCs making their money on their big winners, but the reputations on the companies that struggle. And I think building that good reputation is what gives you a chance to work with the next generation…”

“So, we offered Twitter a term sheet at a five million pre-money valuation. We were an investor in Odeo, Eb Prior companies. So I think I was user Twitter user number 275. We were right there. We offered five. Fred came in at 20 a few months later, and to make …”

“If you're Fred Wilson doing, you know, consumer internet in 2005, you'll hear, you know, you heard the reason that, that Twitter picked him, you know, when it was a competitive deal at the series A was that he was using the product.”

“I would say one of the biggest lessons I've learned from Fred is that there is really nothing more important than your relationship with the founders.”

“I asked him, what are a couple of the biggest lessons? And one of them was, never pass on price. So Fred says, never pass on price.”

“I emailed Fred when I was 17 years old, and him and Brad Feld both responded to me within 30 minutes.”