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Consensus
Jared Hecht – Aug 14, 2024
Let’s explore two themes we believe are deeply important at USV: the fragmentation of search and broadening access to and accelerating our collective foundation of knowledge. Read more
Sling
Rebecca Kaden – Aug 14, 2024
The most exciting web3 opportunities center around applications that will onboard many millions, and eventually billions, of users to crypto by offering a combination of true utility and an easy to use, best in class consumer product. These products have [...] Read more
Changing My Approach to Meetings to Take Back Control of My Attention
Albert Wenger – Aug 13, 2024
I let meetings take over my life. For reasons that I might get into some other time I said yes to way too many meetings. My schedule became ever more packed, often running back-to-back for entire days. It became harder [...] Read more
Lessons from a Voyage
Albert Wenger – Aug 8, 2024
I have just returned from an exciting voyage: crossing the Atlantic on a sailboat. You can find updates from along the way on the J44 Frolic website , Twitter/X and Instagram accounts. In this post I am gathering up my [...] Read more
Vinyl Records
Jared Hecht – Aug 5, 2024
The other day I woke up to the sounds of A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. We recently bought a record player for our home. Carrie requested one for her birthday. I never grew up with vinyl records, so I [...] Read more
The Slow Hunch Podcast: Episode 2 with Muneeb Ali
Nick Grossman – Aug 5, 2024
The middle of a crypto (and broader financial) market meltdown is perhaps an apropos moment to introduce my second podcast guest: Muneeb Ali , the co-founder of Stacks . Stacks is a "Bitcoin L2", meaning a system for scaling and [...] Read more
The Slow Hunch Podcast: Episode 2 with Muneeb Ali
Nick Grossman – Aug 5, 2024
The middle of a crypto (and broader financial) market meltdown is perhaps an apropos moment to introduce my second podcast guest: Muneeb Ali , the co-founder of Stacks . Stacks is a "Bitcoin L2", meaning a system for scaling and [...] Read more
Brian Eno and Generative Film
Jared Hecht – Aug 2, 2024
This week my wife Carrie, a documentary film producer , took me to see Eno . The director of the film is Gary Hustwit , who previously made the film Helvetica . Eno is a spectacular film and I encourage [...] Read more
Trump is Unfit to be President
Albert Wenger – Aug 1, 2024
Donald Trump is unfit to be the president of the United States of America. He is unfit to hold any public office. It boggles the mind that a number of investors and entrepreneurs have come out in support of Trump [...] Read more