Writing

Continuing the year end theme, it is time for my annual recap of what happened this year, to be followed by a look forward tomorrow on the first day of the new year. Last year I was not particularly confident [...]  Read more

For the past few years, I’ve set annual mantras for myself — a kind of reminder that helps guide me through a year’s worth of events and activities. My mantras aren’t resolutions. They also aren’t intentions. They are more like [...]  Read more

It is easy to feel pessimistic at the end of 2018. CO2 emissions are still climbing rapidly and reached an all time high in 2018, with severe weather events accelerating globally. Facebook and Twitter continue to be used for manipulation [...]  Read more

As is my tradition as the end of the year nears, here are the songs that stayed with me in 2018. It is a mix of songs everyone knows, like the marvelous All The Stars from the Black Panther soundtrack [...]  Read more

My partner Brad Burnham recently went on Jason Calacanis ‘ This Week In Startups . It is a longish (just over an hour) conversation and they cover a lot of territory. Read more

At the tail end of the post that I wrote on how USV (me in particular) missed the first round for Airbnb , I wrote: We made the classic mistake that all investors make. We focused too much on what [...]  Read more

We have been dealing with a lot of comment spam here at AVC over the last few weeks. Most of it is “guest commenting” where the spam is being posted by an account that is not registered to Disqus (which [...]  Read more