A historical collection of our writing.
Much ado is all I see And feel like it’s surrounding me The crowd intrudes all day ‘Til I’m finally swept away A few weeks ago I had the extreme privilege of going to a meeting in Washington, D.C. at a building called the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. This the building that houses the […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
The blockchain and its evolving ecosystem and community (Joel and I called it “True Believers” the other day) are a wonderfully smart, intense, focused, weird, open, fun group of people. Almost across the board. Some are capitalists, some may not be capitalists, some cannot figure out which way to […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
I recently finished reading “Birth of a Theorem” by the French mathematician Cedric Villani. It is a terrific book even if you understand only a fraction of the math in it (I certainly did not understand most of it). Villani does a great job bringing the reader along on his quest to prove a theorem […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
As part of my thinking about a possible World After Capital, I have been looking into human needs. A framework that is frequently mentioned in that context is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. It is a great example of something that remains a popular reference point despite being largely a conjecture […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
We are excited to be investors in New York City-based Code Climate, which provides tools improve quality production of code. With Code Climate you can make quality improvement explicit, continuous, and ubiquitous, by incorporating source code analytics throughout the workflow of your entire […] Read more
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Brad Burnham Fred WilsonAndy Weissman
John Buttrick
Albert Wenger
This is the fourth presidential election during the existence of Union Square Ventures and the first one in which we as a firm feel compelled to endorse a candidate: Hillary Clinton. As investors in technology companies, we believe that technology and innovation create broad opportunity and improve […] Read more
