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My Latest Weekend Project: An NFT Gallery On Twitter
Dani Grant – Aug 18, 2019
NFTs are so fun. This weekend I build a little chrome extension that shows you people’s NFTs when you view their profiles on twitter. Here’s the chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nft-gallery/ljfflmadhmibadcpalggnaejfibjghfl People have the best collection of NFTs. Here are some favorites [...] Read more
The Long Engagement
Fred Wilson – Aug 18, 2019
The Gotham Gal and I met when we were 19 and got married when we were 25. We lived together for most of those six years before we got married. By the time we tied the knot, we knew each [...] Read more
The Long Engagement
Fred Wilson – Aug 18, 2019
The Gotham Gal and I met when we were 19 and got married when we were 25. We lived together for most of those six years before we got married. By the time we tied the knot, we knew each [...] Read more
Climate Crisis and Climate Change
Dani Grant – Aug 16, 2019
The comedian George Carlin has a great bit where he gives all sort of examples of ‘soft language’ that soften the original meaning of words: PTSD instead of shellshock, senior citizens instead of old people, the landfill instead of the [...] Read more
Zooming
Fred Wilson – Aug 15, 2019
For the past three or four years, I have been trying to reduce my air travel for a host of reasons (wellness, reducing carbon footprint, increasing productivity, etc) and I would say that this effort has largely been successful. The [...] Read more
Tumblr
Fred Wilson – Aug 14, 2019
The news hit yesterday that Wordpress has purchased Tumblr from Verizon (which owns it by virtue of its acquisition of Yahoo! and AOL). USV seeded Tumblr along with our friends at Spark in the summer of 2007 and were actively [...] Read more
Tumblr
Fred Wilson – Aug 14, 2019
The news hit yesterday that WordPress has purchased Tumblr from Verizon (which owns it by virtue of its acquisition of Yahoo! and AOL). USV seeded Tumblr along with our friends at Spark in the summer of 2007 and were actively [...] Read more
Open Finance First, Open Data Second
Fred Wilson – Aug 13, 2019
My partner Nick put together a deck outlining USV’s approach to crypto investing earlier this year and we have been using it with founders and investors since then. One slide I particularly like from that deck is this one which [...] Read more
Climate Crisis Part 4: What to Do?
Albert Wenger – Aug 12, 2019
So far my climate crisis posts have been about declaring an actual emergency, the encouraging youth movement and joining the global climate strike on September 20th. Now I want to turn to the question of what to do. Today’s post [...] Read more