Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) — Twitter Score 665 out of 1000

Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist who co-founded Union Square Ventures and works at the firm as Managing Partner. He previously worked at Euclid Partners as General Partner, and co-founded Flatiron Partners with Jerry Colonna in 1996, a firm that shut down in 2001 following the dot-com bust. Fred Wilson's Twitter Score is 665 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #135 (top 0.1%) out of 483,944 accounts tracked, with 640,927 followers as of August 2026 and 19,911 posts since 2007.

Fred Wilson has published a daily blog, AVC: Musings of a VC in NYC at avc.com, since 2003, covering venture capital, entrepreneurship, and crypto and Web3 topics, and also posts to Mirror, a Web3 on-chain blogging platform. Union Square Ventures was an early investor in Coinbase in 2013, a position that contributed to the exchange's 2021 direct listing, and the firm has invested in over 25 web3 projects including Uniswap, Polygon, and Helium, with a blockchain portfolio spanning Algorand, Dapper Labs, and Protocol Labs. He has publicly stated his conviction on crypto despite regulatory pressure, writing to USV's limited partners: "When they want to shut it down, I say double down."

Fred Wilson has been mentioned by 1,953 accounts, with 9,528 total mentions.

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Fred Wilson draws followers from across the venture and crypto space. The accounts that follow Fred Wilson include 3,176 founders, 908 angel investors, 553 influencers and 269 VCs, among them Balaji, Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, Erik Voorhees, Marc Andreessen and Nikita Bier.