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Fred Wilson – Aug 14, 2019
The news hit yesterday that Wordpress has purchased Tumblr from Verizon (which owns it by virtue of its acquisition of Yahoo! and AOL). USV seeded Tumblr along with our friends at Spark in the summer of 2007 and were actively [...] Read more
Open Finance First, Open Data Second
Fred Wilson – Aug 13, 2019
My partner Nick put together a deck outlining USV’s approach to crypto investing earlier this year and we have been using it with founders and investors since then. One slide I particularly like from that deck is this one which [...] Read more
Climate Crisis Part 4: What to Do?
Albert Wenger – Aug 12, 2019
So far my climate crisis posts have been about declaring an actual emergency, the encouraging youth movement and joining the global climate strike on September 20th. Now I want to turn to the question of what to do. Today’s post [...] Read more
Our Bias Toward Big Events
Bethany Crystal – Aug 8, 2019
I facilitate a lot of small group events and gatherings for my job. Throughout the year, my colleagues and I collectively coordinate more than 100 convening moments for employees throughout our portfolio network. At each of these, we set out [...] Read more
Climate Crisis Part 3: A Global Strike
Albert Wenger – Aug 2, 2019
This is the third post in a series on the climate crisis. Post 1 declares the crisis. Post 2 is about the rising youth movement. Today’s post is about what to do next. The first and most urgent step everyone [...] Read more
Collecting Stories on Your Travels
Bethany Crystal – Aug 2, 2019
My husband and I recently returned from a 10-day trip to Norway, where we had the opportunity to meet over a dozen new faces in our lives. The fisherman who oversees two daily fishing trips, the uber-locals who never leave [...] Read more
Support Andrew Yang Now
Albert Wenger – Aug 1, 2019
Yesterday evening in the Democratic Debates Andrew Yang made a key observation in his closing remarks: the debates and their coverage are a reality show, which is exactly how we wound up with a reality show president last time. From [...] Read more
Climate Crisis Part 2: Youth Rising
Albert Wenger – Jul 31, 2019
This post is the second part in a series on the climate crisis (Part 1). Earlier this year I gave a talk titled Reasons for Optimism. In it I refer to the Fridays for Future movement started by the amazing [...] Read more
Climate Crisis Part 1: Reading
Albert Wenger – Jul 29, 2019
I no longer say “climate change” – instead I now call it what it is, the “climate crisis.” If you don’t think it is a crisis, I recommend the following readings. http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdfhttps://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 Both papers – in very different ways – [...] Read more