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The back and forth that Elon Musk did over the last few weeks about being public begs the question about whether the challenges of operating a public company outweigh the benefits. Elon wrote this in a letter to Tesla’s employees [...]  Read more

I was born at and spent a fair bit of my childhood at the United States Military Academy where my father taught engineering. It’s a magnificent and beautiful place, full of history and meaning. The motto of the academy, enshrined [...]  Read more

Silvio Micali is the founder of USV portfolio company Algorand , which is building a foundational blockchain of the same name. In this video, Silvio explains what is different and important about Algorand. Read more

My friend Ro Gupta co-founded and runs a company called Carmera which makes real-time HD maps for the autonomous driving market. They do this by operating “an owned and professionally crowdsourced vehicular sensor network” (ie Google StreetView) which captures real-time [...]  Read more

It's been really fun learning about the crypto space while building Gravity  and Middleman . As I've been working on these projects, I've been keeping a list of observations about what it's like to dev in the crypto space. Here [...]  Read more

This weekend I built a tool called Gravity . The TLDR is that it's like Gravatar, but for Ethereum. If you want to skip ahead, you can go to gravity.cool  and create your own Gravatar. Okay, more on Gravity: Right [...]  Read more

I read the ESPN piece on Kevin Love and other NBA players’ mental health issues this morning. My son had sent it to me yesterday. The bit about his panic attack during an Atlantic Hawks game, initially disclosed in this [...]  Read more

I am fifty-seven years old today. As I have done for the last twenty years, I plan to spend the day at the beach surrounded by family. Birthdays don’t bum me out. I look forward to them. They are a [...]  Read more