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Revealed in another interesting trail of emails exchanged between PG and Fred Wilson (who also passed on Airbnb).

Some of the commenters may have spent more time on their comments than Fred did on his post!

In 1986 Fred Wang, then 36 years old, was installed as president of Wang Laboratories.

One of Fred Wilson's partners, Albert Wenger, also penned a post touching on this today[0].

Wang's insistence that his son, Fred Wang, succeed him contributed to the company's failure.

An oldie from Fred Wilson where he calls himself out for missing on Airbnb.

In this blog, Fred sees himself as a bartender who watches as others interact.

One turning point occurred when Fred Wang was head of R&D.

Buoyed by false confidence, Fred charged ahead into oblivion.

# From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism / Fred Turner.

Suppose Fred is given a programming assignment.

(3) Fred runs a popular blog, AVC.com, and he regards it as an important part of his business as a VC.

Title changed from "Fred Wilson: The Next Reddit Will Likely Be Built on the Bitcoin Blockchain" to Fred's actual title.

It seemed to work, given the limited “testing” that Fred did, but that was just a coincidence.

Fred Wang was a business school graduate, "but by almost any definition," wrote Charles C.

In retrospect this was referred to as the "vaporware announcement" and it hurt the credibility of Fred Wang and Wang Laboratories.

Fred doesn’t know why the code is failing because he didn’t know why it worked in the first place.

When software vendors charge by the seat, sometimes customers buy less than they need (Just use Fred's ID).

Fred types in some more code, tries it, and it still seems to work.