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Hacking Education 2.0
Hannah Murdoch – Dec 18, 2020
More than ten years ago, USV hosted a small group of educators, entrepreneurs, activists, and investors for a day-long session called Hacking Education. In summarizing that discussion, our partner Brad described the group’s collective optimism about the role technology would [...] Read more
Stacks 2.0
Albert Wenger – Dec 16, 2020
The Bitcoin whitepaper is now over a decade old and Bitcoin as a system has been up and running continuously since January 3, 2009. Much has happened in the crypto world since then, including of course the launch of Ethereum [...] Read more
Our Investment in Possible
Gillian Munson – Oct 20, 2020
Co-authored by Hanel Baveja 91 million Americans struggle to access money when they need it, often resulting in excess cost and low credit scores. Sadly, this is big business. This consumer group pays $106 billion in fees each year for short-term [...] Read more
Making Butter with Jam
Nick Grossman – Oct 20, 2020
At its best, building a product with others is a joyful, magical process. It’s like being on a championship team and getting into the zone. Or hosting an epic jam session where the band comes together and music flows like [...] Read more
USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q3 2020
Nick Grossman – Oct 2, 2020
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
Sora
Rebecca Kaden – Oct 1, 2020
Co-authored by Hannah Murdoch USV’s education portfolio is built around the idea of changing a system from the outside in. By going directly to learners with products and platforms that offer high quality experiences for free or at accessible price [...] Read more