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Obliterate, Don’t Automate

Michael Mignano

Michael Mignano – Jul 22, 2026

In 2015, my partner Fred Wilson published a short blog post, Don't Automate, Obliterate, on how USV thinks about startup investments. The post was based on a 1990 HBR article by Michael Hammer by the same name. Specifically, Fred and [...]  Read more

Gritt

Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger – Jul 21, 2026

Infrastructure is one of the great accomplishments of human civilization. Early standout examples include the Roman road network and aqueducts and the even earlier sanitation systems of the Indus Valley Civilization. Modern life would be completely impossible without the extensive [...]  Read more

Pascal

Nikhil Raman

Nikhil Raman – Jul 16, 2026

Over the last 24 months, prediction markets have grown rapidly, consistently defied expectations, and quickly become an indelible part of our social and economic fabric. Prediction markets receive a lot of criticism, some warranted, but ultimately we believe these types [...]  Read more

Data At The Edge

Rebecca Kaden

Rebecca Kaden – Jul 8, 2026

Many of the most critical data sets are the ones that we have long been unable to access or interpret. Value on the internet has largely compounded through data loops that continuously strengthen with scale. A product or platform collects [...]  Read more

Alqem

Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger – Jul 6, 2026

The universe of potential materials is vast. To get a sense for just how big it is consider the following: we want to combine three different elements (drawn from a subset of the periodic table of say only 10 elements) [...]  Read more

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