Writing

I saw this in my twitter feed today. Almost a decade ago, my friend John Heilemann interviewed John Doerr and me at Web 2.0. It is interesting to go back a decade and see what we were talking about then. [...]  Read more

If there is a technology that has overpromised and underdelivered more than AR/VR over the last five years, I am not sure what it is. Facebook paid $2bn (or possibly more) for Oculus in the spring of 2014 and maybe [...]  Read more

Being a Knicks fan teaches you a lot about disappointment. At one point this spring, we thought we were going to get a couple top free agents and the first pick in the draft. We ended up with a lot [...]  Read more

Christopher Mims has a good post on the 5G headaches that are in store for those of us in the US as we roll out 5G: The Downside of 5G: Overwhelmed Cities, Torn-Up Streets, a Decade Until Completion As carriers [...]  Read more

Juan Benet , founder and CEO of our portfolio company Protocol Labs , developer of the IPFS and Filecoin protocols, gave this talk last fall. I like Juan’s statement, about 10mins into this talk, that “what Bitcoin did to money, [...]  Read more

David Kelnar sent me this deck that he did on the state of AI . It is very good. This slide got my attention: It is interesting, and not totally surprising, that the sector that AI-focused entrepreneurs are targeting more [...]  Read more

If you are feeling a little low on energy and want a pick me up, go to a high school graduation. You could simply crash any graduation, you don’t need to know anyone graduating. They are such feel good events. [...]  Read more