Writing

Last year around this time, I had a major medical scare which shook me pretty hard. The details don’t matter, but the takeaway was that afterwards I felt lucky to have not had a more serious problem, despite a bad [...]  Read more

Our friend Benedict Evans posted his annual “macro trends” deck this weekend. I asked him if I can embed it here and while he said yes, I am not sure that will happen this morning. But you can download the [...]  Read more

One of the many things that venture capital has taught me is the value of the long buy. What I mean by a “long buy” is buying shares in a company over a long period of time. We have investments [...]  Read more

I am flying home from Europe today (by way of Reykjavik) and as a result, have a lot of time to catch up on things. I have spent the bulk of the day writing up a handful of strategy docs [...]  Read more

I don’t usually take a reward when backing a Kickstarter project, but I really need one of these fingerprint bike locks so I did today when I backed it. USV TEAM POSTS: Bethany Crystal — Jan 30, 2020 What We [...]  Read more

I saw this tweet coming out of the Upfront Summit yesterday (where I will be today): Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to [...]  Read more

A glimpse at the lower level of the Guggenheim Museum during an exhibit changeover this spring. This Exhibit Under Construction A couple of months ago, I went to see a show at the Guggenheim Museum while their main veranda was [...]  Read more

The Democratic primary is coming into focus and it is not a pretty picture. Essentially the choice comes in two groups: incrementalists (Biden, Buttigieg, Bloomberg, Klobuchar) and socialists (Sanders, Warren). The incrementalists want to go back more or less to [...]  Read more

A friend just emailed to ask about requests for crypto products - what products am I excited to see in crypto that I haven’t seen yet? This is such a fun question. Here is my list that I sent back [...]  Read more