Writing

I wrote the email below to a founder doing his first board meeting. Board meetings can provide a leadership team with a perspective on the business that can be very helpful. But many Board meetings are simply reporting sessions. That [...]  Read more

Today Fred wrote a post about how writing is a conversation. There are some incredible gems in it: What I have learned from writing online regularly for over twenty years is that writing online is a conversation. What I mean [...]  Read more

The number one thing I hear from people who want to write online more is that they struggle to publish incomplete ideas and unpolished compositions. What I have learned from writing online regularly for over twenty years is that writing [...]  Read more

USV is and has always been a small venture capital firm. We have twenty employees and we like the casual comfortable vibe that creates for us and the founders and management teams we work with. We are trying an experiment [...]  Read more

USV is and has always been a small venture capital firm. We have twenty employees and we like the casual comfortable vibe that creates for us and the founders and management teams we work with. We are trying an experiment [...]  Read more

Placing financial value on an individual’s personal data, let alone selling it, has always felt like a futile exercise. While ‘big data’ is a hot commodity, my own personal dataset has seemed pretty worthless commercially. But as more LLMs announce [...]  Read more

I believe that creating a successful consumer product can be attributed to somewhere between 70-90% luck and 10-30% executing against that luck. A lot of things have to go right: timing, product, distribution, zeitgeist, etc. So much of it is [...]  Read more

For the past four years my family has spent most of July and August in the Catskills in a town called Accord, NY. We love it there and ended up buying a place here like a lot of Brooklyn transplants [...]  Read more

Farcaster added streaks to the protocol a few days ago: And I started one in the /AVC channel . Streaks are a powerful mechanism to bring users back every day. Duolingo and Snap have been very successful using streaks to [...]  Read more