Fred Wilson Quotes

This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

We want to be able to service our customers more, like an Internet service. Our goal is to run one of the largest Internet services that enables people to use Windows on an everyday basis.

The personal computer can be a virtual device.

The Internet didn't become usable until Netscape because that gave the average person a user interface that was intuitive, simple, friendly - this made it accessible.

An Internet service provider reasonably needs to know your name and address. But it's hard to imagine why a provider would need to collect your Internet browsing habits other than to sell your data.

Offline, anything is expensive. Online is much cheaper, usually, to do almost anything.

There is a saying that if you get something for free, you should know that you're the product. It was never more true than in the case of Facebook and Gmail and YouTube. You get free social-media services, and you get free funny cat videos. In exchange, you give up the most valuable asset you have, which is your personal data.

Some people, honestly, as simple as it sounds, aren't going to log in and put in all their information to get a fight on Fight Pass. I mean, they're just not going to do it.

We know businesses can't compete without reliable infrastructure.

Subscriptions is the bulk of our business; ads are nice to have on top of that.

Netflix sees people as users or subscribers or customers. Historically, networks have seen people as viewers.

If your plumber or pool installer or local appliance store uses HubSpot software, HubSpot may be holding information about you without you even knowing it. We figure we're safe when we use online services. We figure we can trust the people who run them not to snoop on us. I used to believe that. I don't anymore.

It's always about bringing in the numbers, the viewership. That's what gets you the money.

People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That's just not true.

The Ethereum client is literally a fork of Chromium's webkit backend. The idea is that users can build their own interfaces with HTML/JavaScript just like websites, and they will be viewable with the browser much like websites are viewable with the web browser.

I worry about Google's data ethics and about the idea of handing over the corpus of my life, but I can't deny that it is exceptional at making sense of my ever-growing photo library.

I can barely use my iPhone. I can't do Facebook, can't do Twitter, can't do Instagram, none of it.

If you have a billion people running a phone in every corner of their lives, and all these third-party apps and all these countries and all these languages, there are going to be issues.

I think all of the great developers start not with the intent to make money, but with the intent to make something fun that's in their passion zone.

Digital products are, for the most part, services that empower consumers to achieve something that they couldn't do before. Every screen must reflect your value proposition.

It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.

I think, at the end of the day, Stockhouse will have free services supported by advertising, but we'll also have a number of subscription services.