Writing

You may have seen this short advertisement called Always Open on television over the last few days. It is part of a larger campaign called Stand With Small that Etsy (where I am Chairman and a large stockholder) is running [...]  Read more

Since I wrote my post on “The Road Back from COVID19 ″ we have made lots of progress on two out of the three pillars: masks and tracing. Masks went from a discussion of their merits to being mandatory to wear [...]  Read more

We continue to be concerned about the most vulnerable among us and that is where we want to focus our giving right now. To that end, Give Directly has a NYC Covid Fund that will give funds directly to people. [...]  Read more

We call it IRL “In Real Life” in the tech sector. IRL is the opposite of the virtual reality/online worlds that we have been reading about in science fiction and slowly building over the past three decades. I have heard [...]  Read more

One of the most fascinating things I’ve been watching is how the 80 something USV portfolio companies are adjusting their marketing strategies during this pandemic. It is all over the map, based on the unique situations of each and every [...]  Read more

As policy makers around the world seek to mitigate the economic shock from this pandemic, one less obvious but powerful place to look are working capital flows. Yes we do need direct relief for small businesses like the forgivable PPP [...]  Read more

2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day , an annual event supporting environmental protection and increasingly dedicated to fighting the climate crisis . Much had been planned, but due to COVID19 those plans had to be scrapped. Instead there [...]  Read more

The lockdown measures put in place have started to flatten the curve, but they are hugely disruptive and even if we were better about freezing the economy than we are, we cannot possibly maintain them until we have a vaccine [...]  Read more

This is the fourth funding friday blog post in which I’ve suggested good causes to contribute to during this pandemic. March 20th – restaurant workers March 27th – health care protective gear April 3rd – feeding people in need Today, [...]  Read more