A historical collection of our writing.
Hanel BavejaCo-authored by Rebecca Kaden Even with the explosion of new digital payment options over the last decade, there is still a wide gap between the B2C and B2B payment user experience. On the consumer side, buy now pay later (BNPL) companies like Klarna, Afterpay, Affirm, and Addi (backed by USV) allow […] Read more
Lauren YoungDiverse teams build better businesses1. To further support this statement, we have found that aggregating data from 100+ scaling tech companies helps many of them level up their internal processes and support levers. For example, in 2020 we saw that 80% of participating companies did not collect […] Read more
Fred WilsonMike Masnick wrote a good piece on this topic on his Techdirt blog last week. I particularly like this part: First, let’s look at the world without any content moderation. A website that has no content moderation but allows anyone to post will fill up with spam. Even this tiny website gets […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Recently someone tweeted at me that I should read Ishmael by David Quinn in response to a piece I posted about the need for unlimited growth in a finite world . Well I have read it and now find myself wondering if people endorsing it, including Jack Dorsey, have spend much time thinking about it. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Mona AlsubaeiCo-authored by John Buttrick Of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, at least 21% now have net-zero commitments. For most of these companies, even with significant emissions reduction, carbon offsetting will be essential to achieving their goals. In fact, all of the 1.5c IPCC scenarios […] Read more
Fred WilsonI went to renew a .ETH domain I own this morning and the gas fees were so high that I decided to come back another time. Ethereum is the most popular smart contract blockchain by far but it frequently gets congested and expensive. Using it to acquire and renew domains, normally a transaction that […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
