A historical collection of our writing.
Today we have launched a new website for USV . It is the second complete overhaul of the site since USV launched with a blog in 2004 (modulo some smaller experiments with tagging in between). The new site is up to modern standards in terms of speed and rendering on mobile. More importantly though it […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The majority of the 2020 presidential candidates on the Democratic side support a Federal Job Guarantee with Andrew Yang being the lone voice in favor of a Universal Basic Income. Both of these policies are aiming to address the changes taking place in the labor market as our automation […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The majority of the 2020 presidential candidates on the Democratic side support a Federal Job Guarantee with Andrew Yang being the lone voice in favor of a Universal Basic Income. Both of these policies are aiming to address the changes taking place in the labor market as our automation […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Thirty one years ago, in 1987, I landed at Boston Logan Airport with an F1 student visa to attend Harvard. I was full of excitement and not the least bit concerned about getting into the country. I had been here twice before, once staying with a family in Rochester, Minnesota for a school year […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Of course Ethereum is not a walled garden the way AOL was. Anyone can write and deploy a smart contract, whereas adding functionality to AOL required a contract and a custom implementation. What I means instead is that much of AOL’s growth in both revenues and functionality was financed by AOL […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
There are many terrific analyses of the WeWork IPO filing out there. One thing I have not read is someone pointing out how there is a possibility that this all works, despite the hokum language and the eye popping capital requirements, simply because we have created $3 trillion more dollars in the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
