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Uncertainty Wednesday: Limits on Explanations
Albert Wenger – Oct 26, 2016
Now that I have, ahem, explained my take on explanations, Uncertainty Wednesday can move on to examine what limits them. Again, as a reminder, the whole point here is that limits to explanations and to observations are what results in [...] Read more
Moving New York Tech Forward: Clarifai’s Series B
Albert Wenger – Oct 25, 2016
Today our portfolio company Clarifai has announced its $30 million Series B financing led by Menlo Ventures. It constitutes an important milestone in the history of the New York City startup ecosystem: generous early backing for an ambitious technology vision. [...] Read more
Nurx
Andy Weissman – Oct 24, 2016
Nurx is a service that today prescribes and delivers medication from a mobile app and in doing so is redefining the doctor-patient relationship and the practice of primary care. We are announcing today that USV had led the company's latest round of financing. Read more
The Problems with EULAs are Infecting Hardware: What Will it Mean to “Own” Your Car?
Albert Wenger – Oct 21, 2016
Watching Tesla’s video of a door-to-door self driving car offers an amazing glimpse into an autonomous and robotic future But there was also a disturbing footnote to the announcement: you are not allowed to let your self-driving Tesla operate as [...] Read more
People
Andy Weissman – Oct 21, 2016
Much ado is all I see And feel like it's surrounding me The crowd intrudes all day 'Til I'm finally swept away A few weeks ago I had the extreme privilege of going to a meeting in Washington, D.C. at [...] Read more
People
Andy Weissman – Oct 20, 2016
The blockchain and its evolving ecosystem and community (Joel and I called it “True Believers” the other day) are a wonderfully smart, intense, focused, weird, open, fun group of people. Almost across the board. Some are capitalists, some may not [...] Read more
Birth of a Theorem by Cedric Villani (Book Review)
Albert Wenger – Oct 17, 2016
I recently finished reading “Birth of a Theorem” by the French mathematician Cedric Villani. It is a terrific book even if you understand only a fraction of the math in it (I certainly did not understand most of it). Villani [...] Read more
Our Need for Purpose and Recognition
Albert Wenger – Oct 14, 2016
As part of my thinking about a possible World After Capital, I have been looking into human needs. A framework that is frequently mentioned in that context is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. It is a great example of something that [...] Read more
Code Climate
Albert Wenger – Oct 6, 2016
We are excited to be investors in New York City-based Code Climate, which provides tools improve quality production of code. With Code Climate you can make quality improvement explicit, continuous, and ubiquitous, by incorporating source code analytics throughout the workflow of your entire development organization. Read more