A historical collection of our writing.
As I make my way through the various predictions & reflections that accompany the new year, one stands out: the EFF’s 2019 Year In Review, entitled “Dodging Bullets on the Path to a Decentralized Future “. I have long been disappointed that there have seemed to be two separate and parallel […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Last week, as I have done for the last several years, I gave a guest lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The class is DPI-662: Digital Government: Technology, Policy, and Public Service Innovation taught by my old friend David Eaves and the topic in recent years has been on […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
At USV, we talk a lot about our investment thesis . The USV thesis is a set of ideas that has guided our investing over the years. It is a tool we use to help ourselves know what to look for, and to help companies who fit into it to find us. Despite all of […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
A few weeks ago at the CoinAlts conference in Chicago, I did a fireside chat with Sam McIngvale , CEO of Coinbase Custody . CoinAlts is a conference focused mostly on the institutional infrastructure around crypto assets — legal, accounting, custody, etc. So we started out talking about the […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
As part of an ongoing effort to bring transparency and clarity to the Algorand project, we are publishing the first of what will become regular transparency statements on our Algorand holdings and activities. Entities and financial relationships: USV’s has made its investment in Algorand, Inc, and […] Read more
As I turned to write this, I was in the middle of reviewing a document a friend had asked me to look at a little while ago. In somewhat typical fashion, I had not done it right away, and had basically forgotten about it until he pinged me again, and even then I didn’t get […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
