Writing

I think a lot about systems — for personal organization, for business automation, for urban information, for financial infrastructure, for the internet, etc. On a big macro level, I have always been fascinated by the way that many forces, people [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Kickstarter has a showcase up right now called Long Story Short which features a whole bunch of short film projects that are being funded right now. So I went and looked at them and found this one [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Dapper (creator of Cryptokitties among other crypto games) has been developing a new blockchain designed for high throughput consumer experiences (like crypto games). That blockchain is called Flow . Today, Dapper is opening up the Flow Playground [...]  Read more

I’ve written a bit about “crypto adjacent” projects . These are projects that capture some of the aspects/behaviors/benefits of crypto without being full-on crypto projects. One of these “aspects/behaviors/benefits” of crypto that I like is the fractionalization of ownership. I [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Outschool operates a service that allows any teacher to teach a live class over online video. They offer over 10,000 classes by teachers on almost any subject you can imagine. Over 80,000 students have used Outschool to [...]  Read more

I’m supposed to be in Europe this week to speak at a conference and attend another one, but I decided to stay home, to be safe. I am hearing all sorts of stories of events being called off and flights [...]  Read more

Video of the week is back. This is the first video of the week post since we launched AVC 3.0. I don’t plan to do this every week, but I will do it some weeks. About a month ago, my [...]  Read more

Rocketbook is a serial Kickstarter creator, having done five successful projects already. They make notebooks and note pads that you can write on but also save your work to the cloud. They are back with the Rocketbook Orbit which is [...]  Read more

At the moment it appears as if Bernie Sanders might become the Democratic nominee. Bloomberg having entered the race means that the centrist vote is split four ways between Bloomberg, Biden, Buttigieg and Klobuchar. On the left there are only [...]  Read more