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Rosetta
Fred Wilson – Jun 18, 2020
Our portfolio company Coinbase released an open source framework for crypto asssets to make it easier to list them on crypto exchanges. It is called Rosetta . Coinbase is encouraging blockchain projects to integrate Rosetta so that they can more [...] Read more
Real-Time Recount
Fred Wilson – Jun 17, 2020
Our portfolio company Recount Media , which I have blogged about here before, recently launched an interesting partnership between Recount, Twitter, and brand marketers. They are calling this partnership “Real-Time Recount.” Recount is a news organization which publishes short-form video [...] Read more
Enemy Of All Mankind
Fred Wilson – Jun 16, 2020
We have a book club at USV. We read one book together every month and then discuss it over lunch. Today, we are going to discuss Enemy Of All Mankind , the story of the British pirate of the late [...] Read more
Leading Virtually
Fred Wilson – Jun 15, 2020
Most (all?) of our portfolio companies have been working remotely for over three months now. So have we at USV. The initial experience with remote work has been mostly positive. The typical comment has been “we are doing a lot [...] Read more
Funding Friday: Bail Funds
Fred Wilson – Jun 12, 2020
The Gotham Gal and I have been donating to bail funds for a while now. This Positively Gotham Gal podcast from April 2019 with Robin Steinberg of The Bail Project is a great education into the bail system and why [...] Read more
The 1k Project
Nick Grossman – Jun 11, 2020
It has been a long few months, and many people’s lives have been turned upside down in untold ways. One way to help is through the 1k Project . The 1k Project matches sponsors with individuals & families in need, [...] Read more
Two Screens
Fred Wilson – Jun 10, 2020
Last December, my friend Brad Feld stopped by to see me in Los Angeles and I proudly showed him my home office with a separate Zoom Room . He looked at me with a quizzical look on his face and [...] Read more
Meet Clarity
Albert Wenger – Jun 10, 2020
Today Algorand and Blockstack are announcing that they are collaborating on the Clarity smart contract language . Clarity is a decidable (i.e. non-Turing complete) language inspired by lisp. I am extremely excited about this development and have spent a few [...] Read more
Behavior Change
Fred Wilson – Jun 9, 2020
As I’ve mentioned a few times here during the pandemic, I’m very interested to see what behavior changes that we adopted during the pandemic will stick when it eases and which will not. Mask wearing, for example, has been commonplace [...] Read more