Writing

Since launching AVC 3.0 on January 9th, we have had some site reliability issues. The most common issue is a “too many redirects” error that has been reported by many people and is intermittent and not easily reproducible. That said, [...]  Read more

I am in the Netherlands this week, catching up the Leap engineering team which is based here in Utrecht, and attending an IoT conference that Helium will be at in Amsterdam. I have always loved it here, primarily because of [...]  Read more

I just posted about USV’s investment in Justworks on the USV blog . I have known Isaac Oates for over a decade and he’s a terrific entrepreneur and has built a great company which offers a fantastic HR solution to [...]  Read more

Azeem Azhar has a great post up about the brewing conversation about regulation and the tech industry . There are two main points that stand out to me: 1) In digital systems, ML/AI and data network effects create feedback loops [...]  Read more

It was nice to see Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell run the table on the Grammy’s last night. It was yet another sign that the age of self made artists is upon us. As is our custom, my [...]  Read more

What a wonderful project . I backed it today. USV TEAM POSTS: Bethany Crystal — Jan 22, 2020 How to Interview an Executive Coach (or a Doula) Albert Wenger — Jan 20, 2020 More on Facial Recognition Regulation Nick Grossman [...]  Read more

Tech:NYC is NYC’s tech industry advocacy group. According to its 2019 Annual Report , Tech:NYC has over 800 member companies representing all shapes and sizes of tech companies in NYC. I am the co-chair of Tech:NYC. Today, the NYSE decided [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Stack Overflow (which I like to call Stack) is an Internet Treasure. My friend Mark Pincus introduced me to the concept of an Internet Treasure many years ago and I am a fan of the notion. In [...]  Read more

I hired an executive coach the same month that I hired a doula. As it turned out, these were pretty similar tasks. So, I thought it might be helpful to share some reflections about how I approached this process and [...]  Read more