New York’s Climate and Community Protection Act
The lawmakers in Albany have passed legislation known as the Climate and Community Protection Act (CCPA) and it is sitting on the Governor’s desk awaiting signature. There is plenty of debate on whether CCPA is good policy or bad policy. [...] Read more
Understanding Gender Bias In Venture Funding
USV portfolio company goTenna ‘s founder and CEO Daniela Perdomo and USV analyst Dani Grant did some number crunching on VC funding and published the info last week. After 4 rounds of VC, I ran my own data analysis to [...] Read more
Pixel Slate RIP
I got a Pixel Slate last December and wrote several blog posts about it at the time. I use it when I travel and just spent two and a half weeks with it as my only computing device other than [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Libra On The Unconfirmed Podcast
I posted earlier this week on Libra and USV’s involvement in this project Laura Shin had Dante Disparde of the Libra Association on her Unconfirmed Podcast yesterday. This is a good and relatively quick way to get up to speed [...] Read more
Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up
Jerry Colonna ‘s book, Reboot , came out this week. He had given me the manuscript to read so many months ago that I had to go back and read it again before I could write about it. So I [...] Read more
32 Ans
Thirty-two years ago, the Gotham Gal and I got married. We had been together for five years at that time. We have now been together for thirty-seven years. A relationship that has lasted almost four decades is a special thing. [...] Read more
The Cloudflare Ethereum Gateway
Last year, during its annual “crypto week”, our portfolio company Cloudflare shipped an IPFS gateway. I wrote about that then . This year, they have shipped an Ethereum gateway . It is great to see a very large Internet infrastrcuture [...] Read more
Cranberry Juice & Saltines: A Menu for Post-Surgical Autonomy
One week ago, I had sinus surgery to clear up and reinforce the air passageways in my nose to help me breathe better. I’d been dreading this for years. Literally. Years. You see, five years earlier, I’d had a similar [...] Read more
Why USV is Joining the Libra Association
A new blockchain & cryptocurrency project, Libra, was announced today. Libra has been incubated by Facebook. USV will be one of the founding members of the governing body, the Libra Association. Libra is a stable, fiat-backed cryptocurrency that will launch [...] Read more
