Who they are
Co-founder of Union Square Ventures and one of the most influential early-stage VCs of the last 20 years, with early bets on Twitter, Etsy, Tumblr, Coinbase, Kickstarter, and Stripe. Wilson's blog AVC — daily posts since 2003 — is arguably the longest-running founder education resource on the internet, and his pattern-recognition on network effects, marketplaces, and community-led products is still a reference for seed-stage thinking.
Core Ideas
- Network effects as the only moat — his repeated thesis for consumer and marketplace bets
- Thesis-driven investing — write down what you believe, then fund it
- The 90/9/1 rule — participation distributions in community products
Related
- Union Square Ventures — his firm
- Brad Burnham — co-founder