Writing

This piece in Recode explains that Cambridge Analytica built an app that 270,000 people used to amass profiles on 50 million people. That’s not very surprising because we are talking about networks here. This is a network graph that my [...]  Read more

This weekend I am going with a slideshow instead of a video or audio embed. Some of my colleagues at USV have been spending a lot of time with regulators, elected officials, and lawyers helping all of these people understand [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Coinbase launched some much needed tax tools this week . I used them today to calculate our gains in 2017 and send the reports to my accountants. The Coinbase tax center is here . The tools look [...]  Read more

When I got into the VC business in the early 80s, the VC/Company relationship was pretty different than it is now. Capital was hard to come by, VCs commanded terms that would be laughed at today, and once they had [...]  Read more

In recent months, there has been untold attention paid to cryptocurrencies, blockchains and the coming of the “decentralized web” or “web3”.  And, given the rise of the cryptocurrency markets (over 1500 coins with a total market cap of $370B as [...]  Read more

Every year our portfolio company Stack Overflow surveys its developer community and publishes the results . This year Stack had over 100,000 respondents to its survey from all over the world, making this survey possibly the most comprehensive view of [...]  Read more

Once a year, tech companies in NYC run a fair for high school computer science students in NYC. This was last year: Tech companies set up booths and the students come by the booths learning about what it is like [...]  Read more