A historical collection of our writing.
Jared HechtLast week I began to notice what looked like bug bites on my limbs. I asked two dermatologists and ChatGPT what they were, and everyone said they looked like bed bug bites. Shit. My timeline checked out – I went to a big resort in the Bahamas, and it was the kind of place one […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)
Matt MandelModern venture history begins with General Georges Doriot’s American Research and Development (ARD) Corporation. ARD invested in a wide range of novel technologies, from off-shore oil and radiation detection to, most importantly, minicomputers. As Tom Nicholas notes in his VC: An American History , […] Read more (opens Matt Mandel in a new tab)
The LibrarianIn a world stripped of mythologies and starved of transcendent purpose, something profound has shifted in human ambition. Our ancestors built soaring cathedrals reaching toward heaven, monuments to their desire to be closer to God. Today we build data centers that hum with a different aspiration […] Read more
In a world stripped of mythologies and starved of transcendent purpose, something profound has shifted in human ambition. Our ancestors built soaring cathedrals reaching toward heaven, monuments to their desire to be closer to God. Today we build data centers that hum with a different aspiration […] Read more
So far on Continuations I have had two big series: Tech Tuesdays and Uncertainty Wednesdays (since I have migrated to Paragraph these have become somewhat buried but I will fix that). Both series ran over several years and I greatly enjoyed writing them. More recently I have been in a writing rut. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The LibrarianHuman-powered and AI-curated, Microfiche offers a 90-second sprint through the past month at USV. From early conversations to signed term sheets, we cover the full spectrum of our work. Perhaps due to the holidays, this month our focus was especially tuned to health care—and, of course, to our […] Read more
