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Joining the Libra Association
Albert Wenger – Jun 18, 2019
Today we announced that we have joined the Libra Association, the governance for a global stable coin. Nick has written a post on the USV blog explaining our decision. I have argued before that we don’t really know what path [...] Read more
Secrets Of Sand Hill Road
Fred Wilson – Jun 17, 2019
One of the many great things about vacations is reading books. Vacation is the one time that I can really prioritize reading books (as opposed to everything else I read). I just finished Scott Kupor's Secrets Of Sand Hill Road, [...] Read more
Timing of World After Capital: An Echo of Keynes?
Albert Wenger – Jun 17, 2019
After a vacation, I am resuming work on World After Capital. I have been struck by the possibility that my book may suffer a fate similar to Keynes’s essay titled “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren.” Written in 1930, during the [...] Read more
Do you want to learn to play CTF with me?
Dani Grant – Jun 16, 2019
I have a bucket list goal of learning how to play Capture The Flag (CTF), a security engineering game where digital flags are hidden on a server and teams compete to break the code running on the server to find [...] Read more
Mobile Ticketing
Fred Wilson – Jun 16, 2019
The Gotham Gal and I walked into the Musee de l’Orangerie yesterday and found a line of about 20 people waiting to purchase tickets to enter. The Gotham Gal whipped out her phone, went to the Orangerie website, and bought [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Peter Kafka’s Interview With YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki
Fred Wilson – Jun 15, 2019
Peter Kafka interviewed YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki at the Recode Conference last week. It’s an interesting discussion about many of the issues facing YouTube and the Internet at large right now. Read more
Cloudflare’s Galileo Project Turns Five
Fred Wilson – Jun 13, 2019
Our portfolio company Cloudflare provides a suite of mission critical security services, and increasingly other services too, in the cloud to their customers. Among the most well known of these security services is DDOS protection (aka denial of service attack [...] Read more
Helium
Fred Wilson – Jun 12, 2019
One of the areas of blockchain innovation I am most excited about is building open, permissionless, and decentralized technology infrastructure. The three areas that seem most obvious to me for decentralized infrastructure are compute (code execution), storage (storing files, etc), [...] Read more
Turning Streetlights Into EV Charging Stations
Fred Wilson – Jun 11, 2019
Owning an EV in a dense urban city is challenging. Most people don’t have their own garages and so they park on the street or in large parking garages. We do the latter. About five or six years ago, I [...] Read more