Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Wharton School.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Wharton School.
He worked at Euclid Partners from 1987 to 1996. Based in New York City, it grew into an investment fund that focused primarily on follow-on investing, with investments in notable dot-com bubble successes and failures, including Alacra, comScore Networks, Yoyodyne, Geocities, Kozmo.com, New York Times Digital, PlanetOut, Return Path, Scout electromedia, Standard Media International, Starmedia, and VitaminShoppe.com. In 2001 Wilson and Colonna shut down Flatiron.
In 2004 Wilson and Brad Burnham founded Union Square Ventures and have since invested in companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Bug Labs, Meetup, Zynga, Covestor, del.icio.us, Etsy, FeedBurner, Heyzap, Indeed.com, Tacoda, Oddcast, Disqus, Zemanta, Work Market, and Clickable.
TheFunded.com, a social networking site for technology entrepreneurs, rated him their favorite venture capitalist in 2007. Wilson has served as a judge for Mayor Michael Bloomberg"s New York City BigApps competition in New York City.
Wilson publishes a blog called AVC: musings of a Venture capital in New York City. Wilson publishes one post per day, usually on a topic related to venture capital entrepreneurship or the Internet.