Writing

I am a big fan of pairing solar panels on the roof with a battery system in the garage. The battery allows you to use the solar power at night when there is no sun. It also provides resilience for [...]  Read more

As I wrote about a few weeks ago, I am excited about the possibility that technology, particularly mobile computing technology, can supplement the work of manual contact tracing to keep us all safer until a permanent solution is found to [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Coinbase announced yesterda y that it will acquire Tagomi to build out its institutional prime brokerage business. This is an important moment in the maturation of the crypto trading business. At USV, we have used Coinbase to [...]  Read more

Last night at dinner we got to talking the film Barfly , which came out the year the Gotham Gal and I were married, so a long time ago now. We decided to watch it after dinner with our family [...]  Read more

On today, Memorial Day, we remember our fallen soldiers. I spent some time today going back over old blog posts I’ve written on this topic and landed on a post I wrote almost ten years ago , when I visited [...]  Read more

I backed this photo book project today. The creator took photos of the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn during the more than two-month lockdown in March, April, and May 2020 and will produce a photo book. I really like what he [...]  Read more

My colleague Matt Cynamon told our partnership last week that the number of jobs on the USV job board had declined from 1,553 to 871 in the past month. So we suggested he share that data and some observations on [...]  Read more

I’ve been working on getting a fiber internet connection to the home we are quarantining in. With nine of us living and working from home together, we are consuming a lot of bandwidth. And with everyone on our block doing [...]  Read more

I have been getting a large number of requests for help with internships. Many students either never got one for this summer or had theirs canceled. My advice to them is: create your own. Figure out what it is you [...]  Read more