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Sick Day
Fred Wilson – May 23, 2019
I woke up sick this morning and could not fly to Toronto where I was planning to do a session at Collision with Matt Glotzbach , CEO of our portfolio company Quizlet . I sent some emails to let people [...] Read more
Education By The Numbers
Dani Grant – May 22, 2019
We have been spending a fair bit of time thinking about education in the US and wanted to share some of what we’ve learned so far. Below is a deck with some of the data we’ve come across, and broadly [...] Read more
Sofar
Fred Wilson – May 22, 2019
Andy wrote about our investment in Sofar yesterday on the USV blog . That is our practice. We publish our investment rationale on our blog every time we make an investment. It creates a permanent record of why we made [...] Read more
The Role of the Peanut Gallery in a Boardroom
Bethany Crystal – May 22, 2019
Stop me if this sounds familiar: You’re in a meeting at work listening to a colleague present an idea. In the middle of their pitch, they mention something — a person, another company, an example of a problem — that [...] Read more
Citibike
Fred Wilson – May 21, 2019
In a time when there are so many options for getting around the urban landscape (walking, subway, e-bikes, e-scooters, Yellow Cabs, Uber, Lyft, Juno etc), you would think that the six year old Citibike service in NYC would be “old [...] Read more
Sofar
Andy Weissman – May 21, 2019
At a Sofar, you are sitting on the floor in a room full of mostly strangers, listening to artists you’ve never heard of, perhaps in a city you’ve never been to before, and yet it’s possible to feel comfortable and content. [...] Read more
Custody, Trading, Staking
Fred Wilson – May 20, 2019
In our talk at Consensus last week , we talked about security in crypto land. There are a few highly trusted custody services in crypto, including the popular consumer and institutional custody services offered by our portfolio company Coinbase . [...] Read more
Blogging Break
Albert Wenger – May 20, 2019
I have been on a bit of a blogging break which is likely to go on for a few more weeks. The break has been the result of a confluence of several factors, starting with a lot of work. Historically, [...] Read more
Cheeze Wizards
Fred Wilson – May 19, 2019
Our portfolio company Dapper Labs , the maker of the popular crypto-collectible game CryptoKitties , is back with their second game, called Cheeze Wizards , also built on the Ethereum blockchain. Cheeze Wizards is in “pre-sale” mode right now. You [...] Read more