By The Librarian—Sep 12, 2024

Fat Models, Climate Week, neuromodulation, and Bitcoin L2s […] Read more

By Fred Wilson—Sep 11, 2024

A friend of mine stopped by the USV office the other morning and asked me about startup mortality rates. Her business sells to startups and big companies in roughly equal measure and she told me they were seeing a rising rate of startups closing up (and thus churning as customers). While churn is […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Matt Mandel—Sep 8, 2024

In 2019, Rich Sutton argued that the most effective methods in AI were and will be those that leverage computation. Instead of trying to design better heuristics that more closely approximate human intelligence, Sutton thought progress would come from models that could improve with scale as greater […] Read more (opens Matt Mandel in a new tab)

By Jared Hecht—Sep 6, 2024

My favorite mode of transportation in NYC is the electric citibike. I ride one every morning to and from the USV office. There’s a dock on my block in Brooklyn and a dock around the corner from our office. I love my route – it’s a straight shot across the Manhattan Bridge where I get […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)

By Grace Carney—Sep 3, 2024

To practice venture is to practice social theory. It’s not novel to point out that to really understand what’s happening in today’s technology market, we must situate it within its broader societal context. Yet during periods of intense technological innovation and irrational exuberance, the social […] Read more (opens In Transit in a new tab)

By Albert Wenger—Aug 31, 2024

First Pavel Durov, the co-founder and CEO of Telegram, was arrested in France, in part due to a failure to comply with moderation requests by the French government. Now we have Brazil banning X/Twitter from the country entirely, also claiming a failure to moderate. How much moderation should there […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)