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Starting and running early companies requires a series of prioritizations and tradeoffs of how to do a lot with a little bit, both of capital and time. Behind deep product insights are repetitive workflows core to how a business runs: [...]  Read more

Data is the most valuable currency, but for most startups, it's trapped inside different platforms, requiring days of digging, combining, and packaging to answer basic and constant questions. Your team needs this data to make decisions. Your investors are asking [...]  Read more

If eight billion humans already possess the dexterous manipulation skills we want robots to have, why not let robots learn directly from humans, in realtime, at industrial scale and in the environments where they are needed?  This central thesis for Tutor [...]  Read more

AI can now not only help with the work but increasingly do the job entirely across many service industries. We have been in a time of technology enablement and copilots. In healthcare, dozens of large and thriving tech-enabled platforms like [...]  Read more

A few months ago, I asked ChatGPT to “remember” that my 7-year-old son, Max, is a sports fanatic. We were stuck in traffic on a long drive, and my best bet to delay the inevitable iPad handover was to get [...]  Read more

As the application layer of AI takes off, the big question is bubbling of what happens to our aggregated data that becomes our personal source of truth. Who owns it? Who controls it? How is it accessed, stored, and protected? [...]  Read more

We recently started investing out of our newest USV Core Fund. As with each of our previous funds, while it is a new vehicle, our approach will stay the same: small fund, thesis driven, high conviction, and low velocity. We’ll [...]  Read more

The most exciting web3 opportunities center around applications that will onboard many millions, and eventually billions, of users to crypto by offering a combination of true utility and an easy to use, best in class consumer product. These products have [...]  Read more