A historical collection of our writing.
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 expanding the usefulness of the bitcoin network, by making it less […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Jared HechtThis 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 everyone to see it. I never realized how profoundly special Brian Eno is. He is […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)
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 despite his obviously disqualifying character, which has been revealed time and again […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Matt MandelSomething that’s frustrating about investing in non-purely-software companies is the poverty of vocabulary. People talk about “deep tech”, “hard tech”, “frontier tech”, “atoms”, and so on. Sometimes they just mean to distinguish hardware from software companies, sometimes to distinguish technical […] Read more (opens Matt Mandel in a new tab)
Fred WilsonOver the last month, a half dozen people I know have been targets of account takeover attacks and unfortunately, a few of those attacks were successful. Most of these account takeover attacks were aimed at Coinbase accounts. I have written blog posts every time I have been hacked and explained how […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Samson MeseleLast April, USV joined the Venture Climate Alliance (VCA), a group of venture capital firms committed to achieving a rapid transition to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. The VCA is a sector-specific alliance of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and has been approved by the UN […] Read more
