Writing

My friend Brad Feld takes a digital sabbath . No email, internet, phone for 24 hours from Friday night to Saturday night. I’ve not been willing or able to do that but I do try to work less on the [...]  Read more

One of the themes we are deeply bought into at USV in our approach to healthcare investing is the opportunity in women’s health care, particularly providing care to young and healthy women. Our portfolio companies Nurx , Clue , and [...]  Read more

This question came up in the comments yesterday: It got me thinking about whether a competitive investment is a better investment. Most of the time we are in a competitive process when we consider an investment. But that is not [...]  Read more

There are many different styles of investing. At USV, we choose to be thesis-driven investors. This is our current thesis . When an opportunity shows up that is right down the middle of our strike zone, we generally jump on it. [...]  Read more

There is a lot of chatter on Tech Twitter and elsewhere about the Instagram founders leaving Facebook six years after selling their company to Facebook. All I can say about that situation is they gave Facebook way more of their [...]  Read more

One of the greatest things Frannie and I have in common is that we get the chills from music — typically at the exact same time, triggered by the same musical… something. For me it starts  at the back of [...]  Read more

I’ve been interviewed many times and while interviews are OK, what I enjoy a lot more are public conversations between two people. Listening to two people talking as friends and peers is more enlightening to me. My friend Chris Dixon [...]  Read more