Writing

On February 25th we sent a Coronavirus Preparedness email to all of USV’s portfolio company CEOs. Since then it has become clear that many countries, including the US, have far underestimated the severity and spread of COVID19. As of March [...]  Read more

At the moment it appears as if Bernie Sanders might become the Democratic nominee. Bloomberg having entered the race means that the centrist vote is split four ways between Bloomberg, Biden, Buttigieg and Klobuchar. On the left there are only [...]  Read more

We are continuing to see the COVID19 coronavirus spread around the world with a big flare up in Italy. Johns Hopkins maintains a good global map of the outbreak . There are now quite a few experts who believe that [...]  Read more

Today I am celebrating my 53rd birthday. I am fortunate to be doing so with friends and family and, knock on wood, in good health. This makes it all the more important to me to continue helping to fight the [...]  Read more

I have written and spoken a lot about how technological progress is incompatible with privacy . One example I have used is someone bioengineering a virus in their basement. It turns out a much simpler example is what we are [...]  Read more

The Democratic primary is coming into focus and it is not a pretty picture. Essentially the choice comes in two groups: incrementalists (Biden, Buttigieg, Bloomberg, Klobuchar) and socialists (Sanders, Warren). The incrementalists want to go back more or less to [...]  Read more

I have written previously about the need to regulate the use of facial recognition technology . The calls for regulation have become stronger in the wake of Kashmir Hill ’s New York Times article about Clearview AI . It is [...]  Read more

For any billionaire out there: fund nuclear fusion now! Consider this: the people who fund successful nuclear fusion are guaranteed a spot in the history books. And that spot will be immediately followed by spots for anybody else who spent [...]  Read more