Writing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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