A historical collection of our writing.
Back to writing about the climate crisis . Today is the beginning of a week of action by Extinction Rebellion – they are pushing for carbon neutrality by 2025. As promised before I will start looking at solutions. Following my post on greenhouse gases , it is pretty clear that there are […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In 2006 my friends Mia and Andre (pseudonyms) bought their dream garden apartment in Harlem for $500K. They had rented in New York for a decade and bought the apartment expecting to make it their home indefinitely. They initially financed the purchase with a 30-year mortgage but flipped to a […] Read more
As investors in Algorand and node runners on the network, we welcome the first Algorand Economic Improvement Proposal (EIP). Since the launch of the mainnet and the start of trading of the Algo it has become clear that the daily supply growth is too large relative to the state of adoption. Algorand […] Read more
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)
Fred WilsonThe summer is over and the fall season is upon us. I love the fall in NYC. It hums with energy, the air cools a bit, and everyone is out and about. It is also a good time to get things done. Everyone is back at work and focused. That includes me. […] Read more (opens AVC 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)
