"so thank you Fred for coming along many of you will know in fact probably all of you know quite a lot about Fred at least from his public persona if not his blog then his amazing work and venture capi..."

"coming so so I'm kind of interested first off you you were kind of in vegetable early it seems like like how did you fall into that did we was that your focus does that something he happened into you ..."

"didn't do it for close to 30 years and and you're right I was I was he said I didn't know anything and I got into the venture business and you had a write software right right but back then that was l..."

"it's probably the second most active startup hub after Silicon Valley and and that's that's that's big deal yeah yeah so what is it about New York that you mentioned your wife really wanted to be here..."

"York has going for it it's no more expensive to live here than it is to live in Silicon Valley that's not to say it's I mean it's ridiculous to live in New York that's our biggest problem I think prob..."

"really important right right so drilling in may be a little bit to your your portfolio companies or maybe more generally to companies founded in New York City what do you what do you see is a big succ..."

"right so so you mentioned the talent problem and with respect to product managers and and you know we've you're pretty interested in general in how do we solve how do we create more computer science e..."

"available to as many people as possible so that's where it comes from there was also frankly a self-interested piece of it which is hey if we have more organic talent pool to pick from then you know w..."

"really curious about how do I make a program on my smartphone like and you teach them how to do it and they just boom the world lights up for them and right and all of a sudden someone called it super..."

"an in-school program and that's that's a and then cool thing about script ed is they teach kids software engineering and then the best performers get the opportunity to go into summer internships that..."

"I think where that's that model likely is headed is probably more into the world of AP because what's happening in computer science education is that that it is it is it is now really a growth thing a..."

"like the idea of teaching alongside and a real actual teacher because they know how to like keep the classroom in kind of good form because that turns out not to be trivial you do classroom management..."

"gonna go we've got we've got more work to do and one of things that we probably need to do is use technology you've got these portals where you you show volunteer opportunities to your brought your wo..."

"mean to me my partner Albert calls Google's New York office team the gift that Google gave New York and you know I I think that a lot of what we talked about could not have happened without Google mak..."

"estate so even funny the great presidential campaigns or the there you go I hadn't even thought about that and that's absolutely true so so you mentioned government so from your point of view how's th..."

"great job of amplifying all of that and cheerleading it and in truly thing's a big deal like particularly you know from City Hall to be able to shine a bright light on this that's helped a lot and tha..."

"that the economics of fiber and alternative wireless infrastructure it's really quite good we got this really cool company that's not here in New York in Portugal what we found them in Portugal that i..."

"that you know whether or not that company would be successful you know it's an example of you know an alternative approach to doing wireless broadband that was was very interesting to us so those are ..."

"another area that we've been poking around but until your point it seems like one of the challenges is making this stuff understandable to people and presented it in a way that that's kind of more con..."

"possibilities or is it gonna be something that ultimately was you know a really great piece of engineering they probably had IBM couple IBM people solving quietly when you say token ring and another a..."

"like oh do you mean that I could have somebody come do a scan of my facade to make sure that I'm in compliance with local law five and I'm like I don't know I think so yeah another application yeah ye..."

"anything else you'd like to share with us anything we haven't covered that that you excited about all you're worried about or well you know you know III would say that I worry that the world we live i..."

"technologies coming along like like the blockchain other things that you know we can get excited about and and and so I always worry you know that something's gonna come out of left field and and and ..."

"the thing I want us to be teaching I have this question regarding your views system are you involved in it how do you see it going and well so I don't know what about the Indian startup ecosystem beca..."

"generating a lot of the growing vitality over there transit so I live in New Jersey has too many people here and between the devastation of Hurricane sandy and then hurricane Christy I guess in the op..."

"you know we're now we're set back whatever five seven years but it not set back forever one last question hey there so Fred thank you so much again for coming here I'm a huge fan I've been lurking on ..."