By Dani Grant—Aug 7, 2018

One of the applications of cryptocurrency we continue to be excited about is distributed computing. Before crypto, my laptop couldn’t pay a stranger’s idle server as a thank you for running a machine learning program. Cryptocurrencies finally give us the ability to make machine-to-machine payments […] Read more

By Fred Wilson—Aug 7, 2018

I like to think of the investing discipline as composed of three key modes of operation. Buying – Figuring out what you should buy and what you should not buy. There are many strategies that work here but my favorite is buying things that others are not buying. And my preferred reason for “others […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Aug 6, 2018

I have an excellent voice assistant on my Android phone. I never use it. I could be dictating this blog post using the same voice assistant. I don’t do that except when I want to prove that I can. We have had Alexa and Google Home in our home. We shut them off and sent […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Dani Grant—Aug 6, 2018

Exciting news! Middleman is a hosted wallet API and it goes into beta today. If you want to jump ahead and check it out, go here: middleman.cx . If you want to learn more, read ⬇. Web3 should be really exciting for consumers: banking for the unbanked: financial tools that don’t discriminate, a […] Read more (opens Dani Grant in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Aug 5, 2018

A friend shared this book and blog with me called Vanishing New York. Both chronicle the loss of the culture and institutions that made NYC a magical place to live in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Certainly rising rents, rising wealth, a rising proportion of apartments owned by people who don’t live here, […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)

By Fred Wilson—Aug 4, 2018

At the Code Media conference a few months, Peter Kafka interviewed Kerry Trainor, CEO of our portfolio company SoundCloud . It’s a great conversation about the past and future of SoundCloud and also the past and future of the music business. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — August 3, 2018 Browser, […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)