A historical collection of our writing.
Matt CynamonThis post was co-written with Tom Dils and Calder Zwerling. A version of the post also appears on the Variant website Earlier this year, Variant and USV conducted an extensive web3 compensation survey of our portfolio companies. Our goals were twofold: create a proprietary dataset exclusive to web3 […] Read more
Many years ago, when I had just started working at USV, I remember there was kind of a complicated situation that unfolded in a seemingly bad way, and I’ll never forget what Brad said in response. He said: […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
My book, The World After Capital , has been available online and as hardcover for a couple of years now. I have had frequent requests for other editions and I am happy to report that they are now all available! One of the biggest requests was for an audio version. So this past summer I […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Matt MandelWe’ve previously written about the storage gap. The proliferation of solar has led to an abundance of energy when the sun is out and a dearth when it’s not. Batteries help address this gap by storing excess energy in times of plenty and discharging stored energy as needed. The push to build out […] Read more
I am unabashedly a technology optimist . For me, however, that means making choices for how we will get the best out of technology for the good of humanity, while limiting its negative effects. With technology becoming ever more powerful there is a huge premium on getting this right as the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
One tried and true tactic for suppressing opinions is to slap them with a disparaging label. This is currently happening in the Israel/Gaza conflict with the allegation of bothsidesism , which goes as follows: you have to pick a side, anything else is bothsidesism. Of course nobody likes to be […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
