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Mitigating the Climate Crisis: An Overview
Albert Wenger – Mar 15, 2021
Late last year, we announced the USV Climate Fund. At the time, we wrote that “[m]itigation is working on the causes of the climate crisis through either emissions reduction or drawdown of existing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.” In today’s [...] Read more
SilviaTerra
Albert Wenger – Jan 8, 2021
Key to addressing the climate crisis is changing the balance in the so-called carbon cycle. At present, every year we are adding roughly 5 gigatons of carbon to the atmosphere*. Since atmospheric carbon acts as a greenhouse gas this increases [...] Read more
USV Climate Fund
Albert Wenger – Jan 8, 2021
At USV we describe ourselves as a “thesis-driven venture capital firm.” For our core fund, we have been investing against Thesis 3.0 for some time. Over the last couple of years, we have been developing a separate Climate Thesis, including [...] Read more
Stacks 2.0
Albert Wenger – Dec 16, 2020
The Bitcoin whitepaper is now over a decade old and Bitcoin as a system has been up and running continuously since January 3, 2009. Much has happened in the crypto world since then, including of course the launch of Ethereum [...] Read more
We Must Strengthen Our Democratic Institutions
Albert Wenger – Nov 8, 2020
A peaceful transition of power between elected governments is one of the crucial aspects of representative democracies. Let’s hope that is what the coming weeks and months bring here in the US. As regular readers of Continuations know, I have [...] Read more
The Coming Fight for Control of the Internet
Albert Wenger – Oct 30, 2020
I have been blogging very little, as I have been swamped with a big and exciting work project. As the peak effort on that is now past, I look forward to writing more on Continuations again, as well as taking [...] Read more
How Much Clothing is Enough? A Personal Experiment
Albert Wenger – Oct 18, 2020
One of the core ideas in my book The World After Capital is that we have sufficient physical capital in the world to meet everyone’s needs. To help establish this I provide a fairly detailed analysis of what our needs [...] Read more
Innovation Upends Extrapolation: Urbanization
Albert Wenger – Oct 10, 2020
One of my favorite example of a mindless extrapolation was a headline I saw a few years back that said “By 2100 We Will All Live In Cities” (sadly I can’t find it anymore and failed to bookmark it). It [...] Read more
Fear is the Mind-Killer
Albert Wenger – Sep 24, 2020
We have reached the stage in the devolution of our democracy where people have become afraid. Not in the overt, trembling with fear way, but in the semi-conscious, easily suppressed, but no less potent one. If I say something now, [...] Read more