Writing

On February 25th we sent a Coronavirus Preparedness email to all of USV’s portfolio company CEOs. Since then it has become clear that many countries, including the US, have far underestimated the severity and spread of COVID19. As of March [...]  Read more

Tech:NYC , NYC’s tech industry association (which I co-chair), has launched a daily email digest for the tech sector to keep up with the latest COVID-19 developments in NYC. Here is the first daily email that went out yesterday afternoon [...]  Read more

Today is a tough day in the financial markets. Who knows where we will end up at the end of the day, the week, or this month. We’ve already seen the major indexes give up around 20% of their value [...]  Read more

I think a lot about systems — for personal organization, for business automation, for urban information, for financial infrastructure, for the internet, etc. On a big macro level, I have always been fascinated by the way that many forces, people [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Kickstarter has a showcase up right now called Long Story Short which features a whole bunch of short film projects that are being funded right now. So I went and looked at them and found this one [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Dapper (creator of Cryptokitties among other crypto games) has been developing a new blockchain designed for high throughput consumer experiences (like crypto games). That blockchain is called Flow . Today, Dapper is opening up the Flow Playground [...]  Read more

I’ve written a bit about “crypto adjacent” projects . These are projects that capture some of the aspects/behaviors/benefits of crypto without being full-on crypto projects. One of these “aspects/behaviors/benefits” of crypto that I like is the fractionalization of ownership. I [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Outschool operates a service that allows any teacher to teach a live class over online video. They offer over 10,000 classes by teachers on almost any subject you can imagine. Over 80,000 students have used Outschool to [...]  Read more

I’m supposed to be in Europe this week to speak at a conference and attend another one, but I decided to stay home, to be safe. I am hearing all sorts of stories of events being called off and flights [...]  Read more