Writing

We've been talking a lot at USV about the rebel alliance—the alternative to big model reliance—and the opportunities it creates for builders of the agentic stack. But the result of a strong rebel alliance also means we're at the entrance [...]  Read more

We're thrilled to welcome Mike Mignano to the USV partnership. Mike has been part of the NYC ecosystem and a friend of USV for over a decade. Many of us first got to know him when he was raising capital [...]  Read more

The world is becoming programmable and, increasingly, easy to program. But the underlying and consistent current running through this massive and systemic wave is a need for abundant, efficient energy. The rate of change makes what’s possible feel unbounded but [...]  Read more

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