Writing

A friend of mine stopped by the USV office the other morning and asked me about startup mortality rates. Her business sells to startups and big companies in roughly equal measure and she told me they were seeing a rising [...]  Read more

In 2019, Rich Sutton argued that the most effective methods in AI were and will be those that leverage computation. Instead of trying to design better heuristics that more closely approximate human intelligence, Sutton thought progress would come from models [...]  Read more

My favorite mode of transportation in NYC is the electric citibike. I ride one every morning to and from the USV office. There's a dock on my block in Brooklyn and a dock around the corner from our office. I [...]  Read more

To practice venture is to practice social theory. It's not novel to point out that to really understand what’s happening in today’s technology market, we must situate it within its broader societal context. Yet during periods of intense technological innovation [...]  Read more