A historical collection of our writing.
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)
Fred WilsonA lot of folks who are new to the venture capital business and are building their own firms and funds will email or message me about reserves and recycling. I am happy to engage with them on these very “inside VC” topics because I believe they matter a lot when managing venture capital fund and […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Matt MandelWe were recently looking at a new crypto protocol at USV. As we were discussing it as a team, we realized we didn’t totally understand how the protocol worked. Even worse, we found it hard to precisely articulate our questions about the protocol to each other. After some discussion in natural […] Read more (opens Matt Mandel in a new tab)
Jared HechtDecentralized Physical Infrastructure, or DePIN, has the potential to reshape the dynamics of some of the world’s most important markets. Over the past decade, projects have tackled a broad range of industries: information storage, 5G and LoRaWAN, mapping and weather data, computing power, internet […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)
Fred WilsonI have long been interested in displaying digital art on the walls in my home and office. I wrote this back in 2017 and this when we opened our new USV office in 2022. I have digital art running on off the shelf displays in many places that I live and work and it brings […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Jared HechtI’m a chess player and one of the things I still enjoy about twitter is stumbling on diagrams of chess tactics and trying to solve them. A couple weeks ago I thought I had the answer to a tactic so I started to scroll through the responses to see if it was right. That’s when […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)
