Vaccinations At Scale
There was a day in the last week when four million americans got a Covid vaccine. That’s more than one percent of all citizens of the US. One in every hundred people in the US got vaccinated on the same [...] Read more
Tech:NYC’s Mayoral Forum
Tech:NYC is the industry association for NYC’s tech sector. I am the Chair of the organization. I am excited about Tech:NYC’s work to bring the ongoing NYC Mayoral race to the tech sector. On Thursday, April 8th (tomorrow) at 4pmET, [...] Read more
Geothermal
We have a house in the northeast United States where the summers are warm and the winters are cold. We have solar on the roof and we heat and cool this house with electricity. This is the electrical generation/consumption chart [...] Read more
Supporting the Other Decriminalization: Sex Work
New York State finally passed a bill that legalizes marijuana and justly releases people serving time for the kind of drug crimes that now are no more. The enforcement of the drug bans were always super racially skewed, primarily targeting [...] Read more
Hubspot
I do a lot of “bulk emailing” but I hate sending bulk emails. I prefer to personalize emails and send them one by one so that the recipient understands that the email came from me. What that has meant is [...] Read more
Funding Friday: Sentien Audio
I wrote a blog post last fall asking for advice for headphones that don’t go into my ear and allow me to hear ambient noise around me. I got a ton of responses and that led me to bone-conducting headphones. [...] Read more
Exploring Geothermal
This is one of several posts on new areas we are exploring for USV's Climate Fund. Geothermal energy has massive potential: just 0.1% of the Earth’s heat content could supply humanity’s total energy needs for two million years. Geothermal power [...] Read more
USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q4 2020 & Q1 2021
As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are continuing to publish regular transparency statements on our Algorand holdings and activities. Entities and financial relationships: USV’s has made its investment in Algorand, [...] Read more
Fighting the Climate Crisis with Oil, Gas, and Coal Assets
One of the objections to a green energy policy are the potential jobs lost in the oil, gas, and coal industries . It doesn’t suffice to point out that there will be new jobs created installing solar roofs or building [...] Read more
