Fred Wilson Quotes

I gotta keep hustling. I know when it comes to the Internet, we move units. I grew up on the Internet.

It's strange the way Instagram has become a really crazy sourcing opportunity for me. I never thought I'd be saying that, but you see these amazing vendors halfway across the world.

With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.

For decades, media companies have largely controlled the tools through which consumers were told what to buy, wear or think. Now consumers possess the same ability to produce, distribute and curate content and distribute it to their peers in real time across social media platforms.

Gen Y consume most of their media online and mobile. Gen Y, as the Baby Boomers drop off, are the largest cohort with the largest amount of money - despite the fact that half of them are unemployed.

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a piece of paper, and that's what makes you someone's favorite model. We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that's why we're their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we're their favorite.

Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.

Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

I'm very excited about having the Internet in my den.

I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

People don't want to leave Facebook to play games - Zynga's phenomenal success is proof of that.

Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them.

The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.

Increasingly, consumers don't search for products and services. Rather, services come to their attention via social media.

Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara.

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.

I'm not on Twitter, but I am on Instagram and follow Lena Dunham and Usher.

I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook.

There's something about just hanging around when it comes to success on the Internet.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

We [Al Qaeda] must make every effort to reach out to Muslims ... through new media like Facebook and Twitter.

Twitter is maybe the worst thing. It's cool when you can tweet out your show and be like, 'Hey, come see my show,' or 'Check out this Kickstarter,' but it's also this weird 140-character vehicle for insidiousness.

I wouldn't single out Facebook as a concern, because we've got different local competitors around the world.