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In recent months, there has been untold attention paid to cryptocurrencies, blockchains and the coming of the “decentralized web” or “web3”.  And, given the rise of the cryptocurrency markets (over 1500 coins with a total market cap of $370B as [...]  Read more

Every year our portfolio company Stack Overflow surveys its developer community and publishes the results . This year Stack had over 100,000 respondents to its survey from all over the world, making this survey possibly the most comprehensive view of [...]  Read more

Once a year, tech companies in NYC run a fair for high school computer science students in NYC. This was last year: Tech companies set up booths and the students come by the booths learning about what it is like [...]  Read more

Founder vesting is when founders agree that their founder’s stock will vest over some period of time, normally four years. Many times we will come across a company that we might want to invest in and when we look into [...]  Read more

I have been listening to Nassim Nicholas Taleb ‘s new book, Skin In The Game , in audiobook form while driving around LA this past week. I’ve always been a fan of having skin in the game and others having [...]  Read more

I told this story last night at dinner to the Gotham Gal (who has heard it many times) and two friends who are in the investment business. They loved it. I’ve blogged it before, but it has been almost ten [...]  Read more

First a disclosure for all the disclosure enthusiasts who hound me here and on Twitter to disclose things that are well known to most readers in hopes of turning this blog into a legal document: USV is a large investor [...]  Read more

Everywhere I look on the west side of Los Angeles, I see Bird Scooters . These are electric scooters you can rent from your mobile phone. They look like this: I finally got around to taking a ride on a [...]  Read more