SOCIAL: It certainly makes for a attention-grabbing headline, but when a figure close to the social media scene opines about the decline of a trend it is worth taking notice. His position on social media is one of many wider changes Fred Wilson saw in 2014... and where it may all go next. Read more on Business Insider.
Fred Wilson, investor in a string of social media brands, says "the social media phase of the internet ended" in 2014.
Wilson, perhaps more than any other venture capitalist, spotted the emergence of social media early and profited from it. His firm, Union Square Ventures, invested early in Twitter, Tumblr, Zynga, Foursquare, and a few others.
But now, looking back at what happened in 2014, he says social media is pretty much dead.
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