Writing

I don’t know when Gmail started doing these for me but it was around the time I switched over to the new UI. Most likely this is one of the features of that new UI. When I have not responded [...]  Read more

There is a framework I’ve/we’ve used over the years to think about where to invest and where not to invest that I call “atoms vs bits.” I am not sure where I got it from but the concept is simple. [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Coinbase partnered with Qriously to study the adoption of blockchain and crypto on campuses around the world. They published their findings on the Coinbase blog yesterday. Here are some interesting findings: Stanford, Cornell, and Penn lead the [...]  Read more

I've been thinking about moving from a Mac to a Chromebook as my primary computing device. I have not used desktop software for probably a decade now. The browser is how I do all of my desktop computing. Paying up [...]  Read more

The back and forth that Elon Musk did over the last few weeks about being public begs the question about whether the challenges of operating a public company outweigh the benefits. Elon wrote this in a letter to Tesla’s employees [...]  Read more

I was born at and spent a fair bit of my childhood at the United States Military Academy where my father taught engineering. It’s a magnificent and beautiful place, full of history and meaning. The motto of the academy, enshrined [...]  Read more

Silvio Micali is the founder of USV portfolio company Algorand , which is building a foundational blockchain of the same name. In this video, Silvio explains what is different and important about Algorand. Read more

My friend Ro Gupta co-founded and runs a company called Carmera which makes real-time HD maps for the autonomous driving market. They do this by operating “an owned and professionally crowdsourced vehicular sensor network” (ie Google StreetView) which captures real-time [...]  Read more