A historical collection of our writing.
This time in my Ask Me Anything series, I got a tough question about what kind of institutions we need to provide fairness in the age of the Internet. For example akin to what Public Libraries were in the age of books: And here is my answer which talks about policies rather than institutions. I […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Union Square Ventures has always been a “thesis” driven firm. We maintain specific principles about the internet that guide our investment decisions. While other things like stage and to a lesser extent geography, also matter, our thesis or point of view is the primary thing that guides our […] Read more
Capital is no longer scarce. This is an assertion I made a while back in my post “Land, Capital, Attention: This Time it Is the Same.” Today I want to elaborate on that a bit. Estimates put global investible capital at north of $100 trillion. Global GDP by comparison is around $80 trillion and as […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
If you are like me and use your phone as your only camera, then eventually you wind up with thousands of pictures in your camera roll. That often means that when you want to show off a specific picture to friends or share it via email you wind up swiping furiously to find it. That […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
For your Sunday viewing pleasure, here are the next two questions and answers in my Ask Me Anything series. Question 3 is about an area of physics – dark matter and energy – that I don’t know anything about: And here is my short reply which has me excited about Lisa Randall’s book “Dark Matter […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Have you ever been in a super stressful situation that afterwards, when things had calmed down, possibly weeks or months later felt like it was part of a dream or a movie? Well startups can be a lot like that especially around critical events such as a potential financing or sale of a company or […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
