Has Fred Wilson Jumped the Shark?
September 27, 2006
When I began reading blogs more than a year ago Fred Wilson’s “A VC” blog was on the top of my blog roll. His message was unique, true and fresh. For me it was a unique perspective into the venture capital world, a world that I thought I understood fairly well. Over time the uniquenss and freshness has worn off.
This not unique to Fred’s blog - anytime someone does great work they tend to generate higher than normal expectations. It feels alot like a TV series that was great in season one and two, but has lost something by season three. It is time to tune out, but you keep hoping to regain what you loved in the first two seasons. For example, in this week’s episode of “VC Cliche of the Week” Fred suggests that “the goal of anyone serious in the company starting business” is to “build a billion dollar company.” He explains, “These days it seems almost impossible to get a company public and trading at a billion dollar market cap unless it is a very solid business.” Yawn… I am not sure if I agree with the premise in the first place and the rest of the post seems like he was trying to hard to come up with a cliche this week.
For me Fred has “Jumped the Shark.” The truth is, I want Fred’s blog to be as fresh as it was a year ago. But I have an idea. My plan is simple, tune out for six months (i.e. remove it from my feed reader). Bye for now Fred, look forward to reading you again in March. FYI - my blog should not have this problem as, well, what do you expect from me anyway?
