A historical collection of our writing.
The Do Not Track discussions that are currently going on are fascinating because they highlight the huge gap between how the internet actually works and how people are talking about policy. Politicians are giving consumers a false sense that there is an easy “on/off” switch for tracking. And […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
We are excited to announce a Behance talent audition to identify five designers that will be commissioned to update the look and feel of USV’s identity. You can find a detailed design brief at Behance. We have decided on a network-based approach, leveraging our portfolio company Behance’s design […] Read more
If you have been a faithful reader of Tech Tuesday, you may be asking yourself just how many more posts on Data Structures could possibly be coming up as this is now the sixth such post (including the introduction). The answer is that after today there will be at least one more before moving on […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Salman Khan has a blog post on CNN where he suggests that credentialing can and should be separated from learning. He makes a compelling argument for why this would be desirable: This unbundling of credentialing is also one of the hypotheses we have for investing in education at USV (see […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This is the first entry in my Scylla and Charybdis Series of blog posts. In case you missed the introduction, the idea is that startups are hard because you can always err both by doing too little of something but also by doing too much of it. Since I don’t have a lot of time […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today one of our portfolio companies is holding their internal management training in our offices. They have asked me to talk a little bit about my own experience with the challenge of going from being an individual contributor to being a manager. I remember this being a very rough transition for […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
