In my new gig as interviewer, I sat down with Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder of Polychain Capital and one of the top token fund managers, at Token Summit. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
A historical collection of our writing.
In my new gig as interviewer, I sat down with Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder of Polychain Capital and one of the top token fund managers, at Token Summit. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
I woke up sick this morning and could not fly to Toronto where I was planning to do a session at Collision with Matt Glotzbach , CEO of our portfolio company Quizlet . I sent some emails to let people know I could not make it and went back to bed and slept for another […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
We have been spending a fair bit of time thinking about education in the US and wanted to share some of what we’ve learned so far. Below is a deck with some of the data we’ve come across, and broadly the patterns seem to be: Traditional K-12 education hasn’t changed very much overall in the […] Read more
Andy wrote about our investment in Sofar yesterday on the USV blog . That is our practice. We publish our investment rationale on our blog every time we make an investment. It creates a permanent record of why we made the investment. It is interesting to go back and read them five or ten years […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Stop me if this sounds familiar: You’re in a meeting at work listening to a colleague present an idea. In the middle of their pitch, they mention something — a person, another company, an example of a problem — that triggers that happy little recognition light in your brain. “Oh wait!,” you think. […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
In a time when there are so many options for getting around the urban landscape (walking, subway, e-bikes, e-scooters, Yellow Cabs, Uber, Lyft, Juno etc), you would think that the six year old Citibike service in NYC would be “old hat.” But it remains one of my favorite things about living in NYC. […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)