Tag Archives: dissent

• 2011 – Fred Wilson: The Next Internet Opportunity Is in Social Upheaval

“If you look at what’s happening next, you see huge societal upheaval, you see basically societal revolutions, [afterward,] you see … Levittowns, McDonalds, strip malls … you had the ’60s sexual revolution, feminism, anti-war establishment. That’s what’s next for the Internet,” Wilson said.

Wilson said it’s unclear how investors can even participate or fund these ideas, but that’s where the Internet is moving now. But it doesn’t necessarily mean funding new companies, Wilson said. “When you look at Twitter, you see that Twitter doesn’t just benefit from (social revolution) but facilitates that. Those ideas that are almost anti-establishment are where you see the biggest opportunities,” he said.

• 2004 – Hedge Fund to Target Coca Cola

“There has been a lot of talk recently about the end of the bull market. Well, I don’t think this is the reality of the situation. There is a huge bull market waiting to be tapped and that is the bull market of dissent.”