Writing

I am flying home from Europe today (by way of Reykjavik) and as a result, have a lot of time to catch up on things. I have spent the bulk of the day writing up a handful of strategy docs [...]  Read more

I don’t usually take a reward when backing a Kickstarter project, but I really need one of these fingerprint bike locks so I did today when I backed it. USV TEAM POSTS: Bethany Crystal — Jan 30, 2020 What We [...]  Read more

I saw this tweet coming out of the Upfront Summit yesterday (where I will be today): Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to [...]  Read more

A glimpse at the lower level of the Guggenheim Museum during an exhibit changeover this spring. This Exhibit Under Construction A couple of months ago, I went to see a show at the Guggenheim Museum while their main veranda was [...]  Read more

The Democratic primary is coming into focus and it is not a pretty picture. Essentially the choice comes in two groups: incrementalists (Biden, Buttigieg, Bloomberg, Klobuchar) and socialists (Sanders, Warren). The incrementalists want to go back more or less to [...]  Read more

A friend just emailed to ask about requests for crypto products - what products am I excited to see in crypto that I haven’t seen yet? This is such a fun question. Here is my list that I sent back [...]  Read more

Since launching AVC 3.0 on January 9th, we have had some site reliability issues. The most common issue is a “too many redirects” error that has been reported by many people and is intermittent and not easily reproducible. That said, [...]  Read more

I am in the Netherlands this week, catching up the Leap engineering team which is based here in Utrecht, and attending an IoT conference that Helium will be at in Amsterdam. I have always loved it here, primarily because of [...]  Read more

I just posted about USV’s investment in Justworks on the USV blog . I have known Isaac Oates for over a decade and he’s a terrific entrepreneur and has built a great company which offers a fantastic HR solution to [...]  Read more