Writing

What does it mean to have a genuine point of view in the age of AI? The models, yes, can be extraordinary. Yet it often seems like something else is broken or missing. Creating can mean bouncing between a dozen [...]  Read more

More than a decade ago, I had the privilege of pitching USV when I was raising capital for the podcasting startup I was building at the time, Anchor. While I dreaded many fundraising pitches, I was excited for this one, [...]  Read more

We're thrilled to welcome Mike Mignano to the USV partnership. Mike has been part of the NYC ecosystem and a friend of USV for over a decade. Many of us first got to know him when he was raising capital [...]  Read more

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There’s a great story in Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn about how a temporary wooden structure left over from World War II became one of the most loved buildings at MIT. During the war, MIT needed a new building to [...]  Read more

It is said that while history doesn’t repeat, it does rhyme. This is a pattern we've observed before in the Internet era. When a novel technology arrives, early infrastructure is controlled (or attempted to be controlled) by a small number [...]  Read more