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Silicon Valley’s tribal boosterism has been bad for tech and bad for the world. I recently criticized Reddit for clamping down on third party clients. I pointed out that having raised a lot of money at a high valuation required [...]  Read more

Silicon Valley’s tribal boosterism has been bad for tech and bad for the world. I recently criticized Reddit for clamping down on third party clients. I pointed out that having raised a lot of money at a high valuation required [...]  Read more

EV sales in the US are on the rise, reaching 7% of all car sales in Q1 2023, up from 4.6% a year earlier. If that rate of growth continues, EVs will be 10% of the US car market by [...]  Read more

I think of AI and crypto as two very different, but very much related, elements of society moving from the industrial age to the digital age. At USV, we (along with lots of others over the years) have used the [...]  Read more

A few week backs I wrote a series of blog posts about the risks from progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) . I specifically addressed that I believe that we are facing not just structural risks , such as algorithmic bias, [...]  Read more

A few week backs I wrote a series of blog posts about the risks from progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) . I specifically addressed that I believe that we are facing not just structural risks , such as algorithmic bias, [...]  Read more

The term “censorship resistant” is used a lot in the decentralized computing/web3/crypto space to talk about a core feature of these systems. I don’t love the term censorship resistant because it is a wonky term. Software that is encoded in [...]  Read more

My favorite song from the past two years was Chris Stapleton’s Starting Over , the second verse of which goes like this: This might not be an easy time There’s rivers to cross and hills to climb Some days we [...]  Read more

A couple of weeks ago I participated in Creative Destruction Lab ’s (CDL) “Super Session” event in Toronto. It was an amazing convocation of CDL alumni from around the world, as well as new companies and mentors. The event kicked [...]  Read more