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Supporting Teams in their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts
Lauren Young – Jul 28, 2021
Co-authored by Alex Gachanja As captured in USV Thesis 3.0, the potential to leverage networks is a core component of our investment criteria. Over the years, it has become clear that diversity within networks builds better businesses. Organizations with diverse [...] Read more
A Quick Update On Hiring
Matt Cynamon – Aug 13, 2020
Back in May we published a post on how COVID was impacting hiring across the portfolio. On its worst day, our job board had only 750 jobs available, down over 50% from earlier in the year. With open jobs in the portfolio now climbing above 1,000 for the first time since April, we thought we’d give a quick update on where things stand. Read more
How COVID Is Impacting Hiring
Matt Cynamon – May 20, 2020
As the longer term impacts of COVID-19 continue to reveal themselves, one area we’ve been paying close attention to is the jobs market. In our portfolio, some companies have newfound tailwinds and are accelerating hiring. Others are cutting back either [...] Read more
Expanding Our Network
Matt Cynamon – Jan 24, 2020
Some of the ways we've expanded what it means to be a part of the USV network in 2019 Read more
Network Leaders Program
Lauren Young – Nov 1, 2019
Activity led by a Network Leader: Write 3 areas of interest around your face and draw lines to those who share a common interest At USV we believe in the power of network effects. This belief weaves heavily into our [...] Read more
How (and why) we gather feedback from our CEOs
Bethany Crystal – Oct 23, 2019
For the past three years, we have conducted an annual survey where we ask our CEOs to share feedback about our performance in supporting them as partners and board members. While we hope that feedback can be a continual, iterative [...] Read more
Learning & Development at USV
Bethany Crystal – May 15, 2019
A few years ago, in a survey of 500+ employees across USV portfolio companies, we were surprised to see questions about best practices in management and leadership bubbling to the top. When we asked people what they expected to spend [...] Read more
Ten-thousand better decisions: Building a network around “network effects”
Bethany Crystal – Feb 26, 2019
There are a million decisions that go into the process of building a company. By surfacing perspectives from 75 companies in our portfolio network, we hope to create tools that help people within each company answer even a fraction of these. Read more
Our First Network-Wide Diversity & Inclusion Survey
Bethany Crystal – Jan 23, 2019
We conducted our first network-wide Diversity and Inclusion survey with participation from 50% of USV portfolio companies. Here, we share insights and some metrics data that emerged from this research. Read more