A historical collection of our writing.
In 2015, my partner Fred Wilson published a short blog post, Don’t Automate, Obliterate, on how USV thinks about startup investments. The post was based on a 1990 HBR article by Michael Hammer by the same name. Specifically, Fred and the rest of USV partners found that the best investments were in […] Read more
Infrastructure is one of the great accomplishments of human civilization. Early standout examples include the Roman road network and aqueducts and the even earlier sanitation systems of the Indus Valley Civilization. Modern life would be completely impossible without the extensive infrastructure […] Read more
Nikhil RamanOver the last 24 months, prediction markets have grown rapidly, consistently defied expectations, and quickly become an indelible part of our social and economic fabric. Prediction markets receive a lot of criticism, some warranted, but ultimately we believe these types of markets are important, […] Read more
Many of the most critical data sets are the ones that we have long been unable to access or interpret. Value on the internet has largely compounded through data loops that continuously strengthen with scale. A product or platform collects data, that data makes that product better, and the better […] Read more
The universe of potential materials is vast. To get a sense for just how big it is consider the following: we want to combine three different elements (drawn from a subset of the periodic table of say only 10 elements) into a new material. A naive first estimation would be that we have 10x10x10 = […] Read more
