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The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase
Dani Grant and Nick Grossman – Oct 1, 2018
We are not in an infrastructure phase, but rather in another turn of the apps-infrastructure cycle. First, apps inspire infrastructure. Then that infrastructure enables new apps. Platforms evolve from an iterative cycle of apps=>infrastructure=>apps=>infrastructure and are rarely built in an outside vacuum. Read more
Unbundling Healthcare
Naomi Shah – Sep 11, 2018
USV has been investing in health-related technologies for about five years. Read more
USV’s Back to School Reading List
Jennifer Greenberg – Aug 8, 2018
Ever want to know what the team at USV is reading? Check out our summer reading list here! Read more
Analyzing Tools Used by Our Network
Jennifer Greenberg – Aug 8, 2018
We gathered over 450 software tools used across 64 companies, representing approximately 86% of our active portfolio. We began by tagging each tool based on department, the type of tool, and then explored how company size impacted usage. Read more
The Distributed Computing Update
Dani Grant – Aug 7, 2018
One of the applications of cryptocurrency we continue to be excited about is distributed computing. Before crypto, my laptop couldn’t pay a stranger’s idle server as a thank you for running a machine learning program. Cryptocurrencies finally give us the [...] Read more
Jed @ USV
Jed Schmidt – Jul 31, 2018
Over the next year I'll be porting USV's thinking around networks into code, and writing the APIs, apps, and bots that will help folks at our 70+ portfolio companies communicate and collaborate with each other. Read more