Writing

I read my friend Nick Bilton ‘s book American Kingpin over the last few weeks. It is the story of Ross Ulbricht (aka Dread Pirate Roberts), the founder and owner of The Silk Road . It is a fascinating story [...]  Read more

So many of our favorite community anchors have shuttered in the wake of the pandemic. And reopening them won’t be easy. Music venues, movie theaters, art galleries, restaurants, performance spaces, maker spaces, conferences, festivals, and bookshops are the places we [...]  Read more

Towards the end of 2019, which feels a decade ago, I wrote a post on growth . It was an attempt to get away from the blanket term “growth” and its counterpart “degrowth,” which have become stand-ins for entire philosophies [...]  Read more

I just backed this project and got myself a great hoodie to wear this fall when we hope to be back in NYC. USV TEAM POSTS: Bethany Crystal — May 14, 2020 7 Ways to Manage Quarantine Life with a [...]  Read more

We have been looking for ways in which crypto assets can go mainstream. Our interest and investment in Dapper’s crypto games is an effort in that area. So is our involvement in the Libra project . We also have been [...]  Read more

It’s been an interesting two months of living the isolationist lifestyle at home with my husband. The month was my ninth month of pregnancy. The second was our first month of life with a newborn. To top it off, my [...]  Read more

I am confident this pandemic will end. At some point, we will have a vaccine, therapeutics, and/or broad based immunity. When that will happen is less clear to me. I believe that at some point, we will be able to [...]  Read more

USV has invested in the education sector for a bit more than ten years. We kicked things off with an event we called Hacking Education back in March 2009. We have focused on “direct to learner” businesses and have mostly [...]  Read more

We’ve been watching the ESPN series The Last Dance along with something like 6mm other fans who are watching it right now. It is a reminder of how dominant Michael Jordan was in the 90s and what a special player [...]  Read more