A historical collection of our writing.
Dani GrantThe comedian George Carlin has a great bit where he gives all sort of examples of ‘soft language’ that soften the original meaning of words: PTSD instead of shellshock, senior citizens instead of old people, the landfill instead of the dump. Another example of ‘soft language’ is climate change – a […] Read more (opens Dani Grant in a new tab)
Fred WilsonFor the past three or four years, I have been trying to reduce my air travel for a host of reasons (wellness, reducing carbon footprint, increasing productivity, etc) and I would say that this effort has largely been successful. The main tool that I have used to accomplish this is videoconferencing […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe news hit yesterday that WordPress has purchased Tumblr from Verizon (which owns it by virtue of its acquisition of Yahoo! and AOL). USV seeded Tumblr along with our friends at Spark in the summer of 2007 and were actively involved in the development of the company until its sale to Yahoo! in […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThe news hit yesterday that WordPress has purchased Tumblr from Verizon (which owns it by virtue of its acquisition of Yahoo! and AOL). USV seeded Tumblr along with our friends at Spark in the summer of 2007 and were actively involved in the development of the company until its sale to Yahoo! in […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Fred WilsonMy partner Nick put together a deck outlining USV’s approach to crypto investing earlier this year and we have been using it with founders and investors since then. One slide I particularly like from that deck is this one which describes how we think the crypto market will develop over time. We […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
So far my climate crisis posts have been about declaring an actual emergency, the encouraging youth movement and joining the global climate strike on September 20th. Now I want to turn to the question of what to do. Today’s post sets out four basic principles. First, the “what” itself is quite […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
